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Published · transcript-backedDylan Patel: prediction
25 Aug 2026 Dwarkesh Podcast Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028
“Just because someone has raised prices doesn’t mean the entire supply chain rebalances immediately.”
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- 25 Aug 2026
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…Seems low. So if that’s the case, then what happens to the price of compute? Well, if I’m Anthropic, incremental compute is worth it. Maybe I spend $40 million a megawatt on SpaceX compute. If I’m SpaceX, I look to the supply chain and I’m like, “Well, I’ve struck this deal with Jensen (where he’s now all of a sudden using Twitter).” And Elon’s saying they’re exclusive to Nvidia, but why doesn’t Jensen raise his prices? Then SK Hynix and Micron and Samsung look at it and they’re like, “Well, why don’t we raise our prices?” So with the value capture, I think there’s a bullwhip effect here. Just because someone has raised prices doesn’t mean the entire supply chain rebalances immediately. But over time, the supply chain will rebalance and things will cost more and more. To get that incremental capacity, you sort of have to. So TSMC raising prices very slowly, but memory companies raising prices very quickly. Substrate companies raising prices very quickly. Elon wouldn’t have sold if it was $15, but he’s selling because it’s $25+. So obviously he raised his prices really quickly. I’m surprised you think that revenue per gigawatt doesn’t increase way more than even 100 per gigawatt by the end of next year.…
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