BETA
Chapter 1
The birth of the AI giants
Chapter 2
The great split and Anthropic
Chapter 3
The historic multi-billion dollar funding wars
Chapter 4
The eye-watering cost of digital brains
YOUR GOAL
Master of The trillion-dollar AI race
Ch 4 · The eye-watering cost of digital brains
steve Match massive funding rounds to AI researchers to discover how tech giants buy talent.
steve Trillion-Dollar AI Race
Digital brains are shining so bright, But the cost to make them think, Is a trillion-dollar race, a staggering climb!
steve AI data centers consume vast amounts of electricity and water, raising major environmental concerns.
steve NVIDIA's specialized graphic processors are the lifeblood of the AI industry, leading to a massive hardware bottleneck.
Fun Fact
AI's heavy power bill: A single ChatGPT search query consumes about ten times more electricity than a standard Google search query.
Glossary
datacenter (noun)
A facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. In November 2025, OpenAI partnered with Amazon to secure advanced chips for its massive cloud datacenters.
A facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. In November 2025, OpenAI partnered with Amazon to secure advanced chips for its massive cloud datacenters.
Quiz
Which company dominates over 90% of the market for the high-end chips used to train frontier AI models?
Quiz
What type of energy source are several tech giants investing in to power their massive AI data centers?
Quiz
How much revenue did OpenAI generate in the full year of 2025, beating its own internal target of $10 billion?
Quiz
A single ChatGPT query consumes roughly how many times more electricity than a standard Google search?
Quiz
Which major investment banks were selected to lead OpenAI's confidential IPO filing in June 2026?
Quiz
What is the primary resource used in millions of gallons to cool the supercomputers in AI data centers?
Quiz
What official document did both OpenAI and Anthropic confidentially file in June 2026 to prepare for their public stock market debuts?