The desert may be worth more than farmland once you price compute

A solar-to-H100 calculation shows how quickly land value can flip under AI-era energy economics

Plots of empty desert could soon be worth more than the most fertile farmland in human history. @CJHandmer ran through the back-of-the-envelope math. 10 acres of solar is enough for 1 MW of H100s. And the FLOPS done by those H100s is ro
Ranked #7 on backlist 2026-06-25 (25 Jun 2026 UTC) · by (Dwarkesh Patel) ·

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