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title: "Chapter 12, claim 2, the relay, due 31 December 2028 · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests/2028-13
description: "Chapter 12, claim 2, the relay: due 31 December 2028. Falsified if the parallel investment of every layer at once has removed the relay the claim assumes."
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# Chapter 12, claim 2, the relay

Due 31 December 2028

**The test.** Falsified if the parallel investment of every layer at once has removed the relay the claim assumes. The relay is removed if a generator step-up transformer’s lead time is under a year, the threshold chapter 14 gives for the commodity future. If no such count for 2028 is published by that day, the limb is unscored.

a mixed or partial reading More than 160 weeks in the first quarter of 2026, up from 143 in 2024, on the count of Ben Boucher, a senior analyst with the consultancy Wood Mackenzie.

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**Falls due:** 31 December 2028

**Read on:** One figure, a generator step-up transformer’s lead time

**Chapter:** [Chapter 12 — Cross-Examination](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-12)The book’s own thesis put on trial: five claims, each scored against the record and given a dated test that could prove it wrong.

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## Related in the record

- Scorecard indicator [Generator step-up transformer lead time](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/scorecard/indicators/generator-step-up-transformer-lead-time)
- Dated test [Chapter 14, the movement sideways, toward commodity, due 31 August 2029](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests/2029-10)

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