The set of spending a count includes. Goldman Sachs’s perimeter is the spending it counts as AI investment; the Scorecard’s rows and chapter 14 name their perimeter where it decides a figure. Chapters 1, 14.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 1 — The Stakes
What the race is for: the belief that a lead in AI can compound into a lasting advantage, how long such leads have actually lasted, and what a trillion dollars a year is being bet against.
- 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. “Perimeter.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/perimeter (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-perimeter-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Perimeter}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/perimeter},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}