The fee a customer owes if it leaves a power contract before its term. At Hyperion a Meta Platforms guarantee backs it. The fee protects only the original estimate for the generation and transmission, while the minimum bill is recalculated so that the customer pays the plants’ actual cost. Chapter 6.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
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- Chapter 6 — Firm, Around-the-Clock
Where the electricity comes from: grid queues, transformers, turbines and the firm power a datacenter needs every hour of the year, on calendars the buildout does not control.
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Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Early-termination fee.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/early-termination-fee (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-early-termination-fee-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Early-termination fee}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/early-termination-fee},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}