Quiz: The Power-Bound Era & AI Infrastructure Roadmaps (Part 16)

10 questions from Part 16 of the guide. Score instantly; every explanation links to the chapter that derives the answer.

The central claim of the power-bound era is that the binding constraint moved from…
capital to laborthe accelerator you can buy to the megawatt you can energize (and its date)software to hardwareland to water
How much generation and storage sits in US interconnection queues, versus AI capacity actually under construction?
>2,060 GW queued vs ~4–5 GW of DC capacity under construction~200 GW vs ~50 GW~50 GW vs ~40 GWthe queue cleared in 2025
The guide's advice on the facility 'substrate' is to…
build exactly to current needspre-invest in floor loading, water headroom, electrical risers, and pipe-rack space for racks that don't exist yetavoid any speculative capacitylet tenants fund all upgrades
Budgeting inference revenue against which curve is the guide's rule?
flat $/tokenthe ~10×/yr algorithmic-and-price deflation curve5% annual price growthGPU rental prices
The AI-optimized facility build-cost band the guide uses for underwriting is…
~$1–2M/MW~$15–25M/MW (shell + fit-out, excluding IT)~$100M/MW~$5M/MW all-in
The three demand scenarios the guide says you must consciously underwrite against are…
bull, bear, basesupercycle, digestion, and overbuildtraining, inference, edge2026, 2028, 2030
Which subsystem trends does Part 16 consolidate into one roadmap view?
only GPUsdensity, power (DC architectures), cooling, network, and silicon — because they co-movemarketing and salesnone; roadmaps are per-vendor only
A 1 GW AI campus's total program cost runs approximately…
~$3B~$10B~$38B (~$8.5B/yr)~$100B
Announced vs real: of the ~12 GW of US capacity targeted for 2026, how much was actively under construction?
All of itAbout two-thirdsAbout one-thirdNone
The organizational re-orientation the power-bound era demands is…
hiring more ML engineersre-organizing the entire program around time-to-megawatt rather than chip allocationoutsourcing all constructioncentralizing in one region

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