# Landing page figures

> Where each figure on the landing page comes from, and how the capital expenditure clock is computed from reported totals.

Updated 2026-09-06. Canonical: https://gpuquant.com/docs/landing-figures

The landing page opens with figures that are not prices and not GPUQuant measurements. Each is a published figure with its source printed under it, and this page is where each comes from. Nothing here is measured by GPUQuant, which is why the figures and their sources live in one file that both the landing page and this page render from, so the two cannot drift.

## The two figures

-   **$6.7T**, datacenter capital needed by 2030: [McKinsey](https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-telecommunications/our-insights/the-cost-of-compute-a-7-trillion-dollar-race-to-scale-data-centers), read 2026-09-02. Never rounded further than the publisher rounded it.
-   **$193.7B**, nVIDIA datacenter chips sold in one year: [NVIDIA, fiscal 2026](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-2026), read 2026-09-02. Never rounded further than the publisher rounded it.

## The clock

The clock under the globe is the capital expenditure of Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta since ChatGPT launched on 2022-11-30, integrated from their annual totals to the present second. It is a model of reported figures, not a reading: the past years are what the four companies reported, the current year is their combined guidance, and the seconds are interpolation at that pace. Each year is replaced with the reported total when fourth-quarter results land.

```
2022  $153B  reported
2023  $149B  reported
2024  $226B  reported
2025  $410B  reported
2026  $725B  guidance
```

-   2024, 2025 and the 2026 guidance: [CNBC, "Tech AI spending approaches $700 billion in 2026", 6 February 2026](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-meta-amazon-ai-cash.html)
-   2024: [Epoch AI, "Hyperscaler capex has quadrupled since GPT-4's release"](https://epoch.ai/data-insights/hyperscaler-capex-trend)
-   2022 and 2023: [Company annual reports, purchases of property and equipment](https://www.sec.gov/)