Repaying the cost of a plant over a fixed term with a return on it, as a utility’s tariff or a lender’s schedule does. Chapter 14 derives Hyperion’s minimum bill that way. Chapter 14.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
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.
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Capital recovery.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/capital-recovery (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-capital-recovery-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Capital recovery}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/capital-recovery},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}