A rental price for an accelerator-hour at which the book’s model of Hyperion changes its ordering of the four futures. On SemiAnalysis’s $3.1 million figure for a 72-accelerator rack there are three. Below $3.01 an hour the strategic engine stops being the best future for the campus and the rationed utility takes its place. Below $2.66 the strategic engine no longer covers its rent. At $1.84 the commodity case would break even. The book’s figures, not a market’s. Chapter 14.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
The book uses this term in a sense of its own.
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 14 — The Convergence
One campus, Meta’s Hyperion, run through four possible futures to show how science, power, money and permission meet in the price of an accelerator-hour.
Where the record uses it
- Scorecard indicator Post-2024 METR horizon doubling time
- Dated test Chapter 14, the hour, on a proxy, due 1 June 2029
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Break-point.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/break-point (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-break-point-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Break-point}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/break-point},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}