According to Soumith Chintala, a 10GW AI build equates to roughly $340B of Nvidia H100s at $30,000 per GPU, assuming 20% of power is reserved for non-GPU components (source: Soumith Chintala on X, Sep 23, 2025). He further estimates a 30% volume discount would reduce OpenAI’s outlay to about $230B (source: Soumith Chintala on X, Sep 23, 2025). Chintala contrasts the discounted scenario with a hypothetical where OpenAI pays full price and Nvidia reinvests the implied $100B delta into OpenAI equity, highlighting how deal structure could shift realized revenue versus strategic upside for NVDA (source: Soumith Chintala on X, Sep 23, 2025). For trading, the two price paths frame NVDA sensitivity to pricing power, gross margin mix, and potential strategic financing; if the 10GW plan referenced by OpenAI Newsroom on X guided actual orders, the magnitude implies a multi-hundred-billion-dollar pipeline that would be material for semis and AI-infrastructure equities while reinforcing AI-compute scarcity narratives that can influence crypto-adjacent GPU plays (sources: Soumith Chintala on X, Sep 23, 2025; OpenAI Newsroom on X as linked by Chintala).