<story><title>“Meta spent almost as much as the Manhattan Project on GPUs in today&apos;s dollars”</title><url>https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1786213463456448900</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcosdumay</author><text>So... A single company has just spent about 0.1% of the US GDP in a pet project, and it&amp;#x27;s not even the leading one on the market?&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s just incredible, and not a good thing.</text></item><item><author>maratc</author><text>Both the Manhattan Project and the Apollo Program were 0.4% of GDP. With today&amp;#x27;s GDP of $27T, $108B would be equal — Meta have only spent less than a third of that on GPUs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mlsu</author><text>I would challenge that a little bit -- I think it is a good thing, given that they have open-sourced the results of the project.&lt;p&gt;It seems to me to be far better than a company which simply gives 0.1% of US GDP back to shareholders in the form of dividends or stock buybacks, which is a very common occurrence given the size of companies nowadays. Or worse, a company which spends 0.1% of US GDP manufacturing things that are wholly useless or even actively damaging to consumers, the environment, etc.</text></comment>
<story><title>“Meta spent almost as much as the Manhattan Project on GPUs in today&apos;s dollars”</title><url>https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1786213463456448900</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcosdumay</author><text>So... A single company has just spent about 0.1% of the US GDP in a pet project, and it&amp;#x27;s not even the leading one on the market?&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s just incredible, and not a good thing.</text></item><item><author>maratc</author><text>Both the Manhattan Project and the Apollo Program were 0.4% of GDP. With today&amp;#x27;s GDP of $27T, $108B would be equal — Meta have only spent less than a third of that on GPUs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chii</author><text>Why not? If someone is willing to make large bets like that, all the more power to them.&lt;p&gt;Society has (and should) continue to become wealthier. The laws that govern us has improved from the medieval days where money is everything, so just because a private entity is able to spend a lot doesn&amp;#x27;t imply there&amp;#x27;s anything untoward.</text></comment>