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title: "Lien: what it means · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/lien
description: "Lien: A claim on a property for unpaid work. It is the claimant's assertion, not a court's judgment. Chapter 4."
---

# Lien

What does “Lien” mean?

LienA claim on a property for unpaid work. It is the claimant’s assertion, not a court’s judgment. *Chapter 4.*

From *The AI Compute Race*. [Read the book](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#buy)

## Where the book uses it

- [Chapter 4 — One Rack](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-4)How a datacenter is actually built, from a converted factory in Memphis to a greenfield campus in Texas, and what the clock from first ground to first power really measures.

## Related terms

- [122 days](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/122-days)
- [Abilene](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/abilene)
- [Accelerator](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/accelerator)
- [Blackwell](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/blackwell)
- [Colossus](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/colossus)
- [CPU](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/cpu)
- [GB200 NVL72](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/gb200-nvl72)
- [GB300](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/gb300)
- [GPU](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/gpu)
- [Greenfield](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/greenfield)
- [H100](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/h100)
- [Lithography](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/lithography)

From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.

- [Campuses](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger)
- [Tests](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests)
- [Scorecard](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/scorecard)
- [Data](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/releases)
- [Chapter by chapter](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/companion)
- [The record at a glance](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/observatory)
- [The machine](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/machine)
- [One campus, four futures](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/hyperion)
- [Glossary](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary)
- [People](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/people)
- [Sources](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources)
- [Notes](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes)
- [Where the book was wrong](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/corrections)
- [Where its sources were wrong](https://dryburgh.com/corrections?book=vol1)
- [The Paper](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/paper)
- [Consent](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/consent)
- [Who builds and pays](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties)

*The AI Compute Race: Five Races, One Machine* is a book by Lee S. Dryburgh, the first volume of THE COMPUTE ECONOMY, published by Dryburgh, an imprint of Contestra OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia; its record closes on 8 November 2026.

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