Equation 2 · Part 6 · How Grok and Colossus Actually Work, as Far as the Record Shows
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What this part means
Approximately equal to; the equality is not exact.
Its job in the formula
Approximately equal to; the equality is not exact.
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The passage around this formula
Colossus 2 is the clearest example of a figure that belongs squarely in the vendor-claim column rather than the confirmed-fact one. On December 30, 2025, Elon Musk announced that xAI had purchased a third building in Memphis, expanding the campus toward a stated 2-gigawatt total capacity and roughly 555,000 GPUs, reported to represent about $18 billion in accelerator purchases — implying, by simple division, something on the order of $32,000 per GPU [ 10 ] . The reporting is explicit that this is Musk’s own announcement rather than an independently audited figure, and the newer accelerator generation involved (GB200- and GB300-class parts, alongside roughly 30,000 legacy H100/H200 units…
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A variable is a named place for a value. Its letter is a local label: x can mean position in one formula and a data point in another.
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