A charge payable whether or not the power is used. At Hyperion it is designed to cover the three gas plants’ full cost, including overruns before they enter service and any power bought in to bridge the gap if they are late. Chapter 6.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
Defined in Chapter 6 — Firm, Around-the-Clock.
Where the book uses it
- 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.
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Minimum bill.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/minimum-bill (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-minimum-bill-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Minimum bill}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/minimum-bill},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}