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A brewing scandal: NVIDIA claimed to have "shipped 6 million Blackwell GPUs" in the last year, an estimated 10-12GW of IT load (power used). The data centers are still being built and don't have the power, meaning millions of GPUs are likely sitting in warehouses.
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![Is NVIDIA Shipping Millions Of GPUs And Putting Them In Warehouses? Where Are The 6 Million Shipped Blackwell GPUs?
As I covered in the Hater’s Guide To NVIDIA:
Going off of [Stargate] Abilene’s [OpenAI’s giant data center project in Abilene, TX] mathematics — $40bn of chips across 8 buildings — that means each building is about $5 billion of chips (and I assume the associated hardware). Each building is 400,000 square feet, which is over 9 acres of space.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang claims that NVIDIA has shipped 6 million Blackwell GPUs — and according to CNBC, that specifically refers to AI GPUs shipped. They have left NVIDIA’s warehouses. These chips are in flight. They are real. Where the fuck are they?
So, Stargate Abilene is meant to have 1.2GW of power, and each building is 440,000 square feet according to developer Lancium, and it appears based on some reporting that each building will be 100MW of IT load, though I’m having trouble getting a consistent answer here.
In any case, we can do some napkin maths! 100MW = 50,000 Blackwell GPUs (I’m going to guess B200s), making 6 million Blackwell GPUs somewhere in the region of 12GW of IT load, and because data centers need 30% or more power than their IT loads (to cover for that “design day” i mentioned earlier), that means 15.6GW of power is required to make the last four quarters of NVIDIA GPUs sold turn on.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreib4mjcrqndmfnfopn4gepwxnn2q7hblpi5owplphqgdib4kpjejbi@jpeg)
![While I’m not going to copy-paste my whole (premium) piece, I was only able to find, at most, a few hundred thousand Blackwell GPUs — many of which aren’t even online! — including OpenAI’s Stargate Abilene (allegedly 400,000, though only two buildings are handed over); a theoretical 131,000 GPU cluster owned by Oracle announced in March 2025; 5000 Blackwell GPUs at the University of Texas, Austin; “more than 1500” in a Lambda data center in Columbus, Ohio; The Department of Energy’s still-in-development 100,000 GPU supercluster, as well as “10,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs” that are “expected to be available in 2026 in its “Equinox” cluster; 50,000 going into the still-unbuilt Musk-run Colossus 2 supercluster; CoreWeave’s “largest GB200 Blackwell cluster” of 2496 Blackwell GPUs; “tens of thousands” of them deployed globally by Microsoft (including 4600 Blackwell Ultra GPUs); 260,000 GPUs for five AI data centers for the South Korean government…and I am still having trouble finding one million of these things that are actually allocated anywhere, let alone in a data center, let alone one with sufficient power.
I do not know where these six million Blackwell GPUs have gone, but they certainly haven’t gone into data centers that are powered and turned on. In fact, power has become one of the biggest issues with building these things, in that it’s really difficult (and maybe impossible!) to get the amount of power these things need.
In really simple terms: there isn’t enough power or built data centers for those six million Blackwell GPUs, in part because the data centers aren’t built, and in part because there isn’t enough power for the ones that are. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently said on a podcast that his company “[didn’t] have the warm shells to plug into,” meaning buildings with sufficient power, and heavily suggested Microsoft “may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that [he] couldn’t plug in.”
The news that HPE’s (Hewlett Packard Enterpris…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreietn6y56tv6duegxjc3wciuu5jvudof3odgjqitlhl4ctauqpmx4y@jpeg)
December 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A brewing scandal: NVIDIA claimed to have "shipped 6 million Blackwell GPUs" in the last year, an estimated 10-12GW of IT load (power used). The data centers are still being built and don't have the power, meaning millions of GPUs are likely sitting in warehouses.
www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-...
www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-...
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June 16, 2024 at 1:57 AM
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あとはパテ部分整形して面処理&彫り増ししたら終わり！
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