Foxconn says NVIDIA Vera Rubin AI datacenters could cost $47 billion per 1GW, with annual power bills of $1.3B

Foxconn disclosed that building an AI data center based on NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin architecture could cost as much as $47 billion per 1GW, with annual electricity costs reaching $1.3 billion. The company also said hardware depreciation is 6x higher than the power bill. Initial systems have been shipped to cloud providers for validation, and full-volume production is already underway.