The Other Half of Compute Everyone is counting gigawatts and GPUs. The number that decides the return is what each one actually buys. Markets & Power 2026·06·03 · 9 min The capacity stack
Call it the capacity stack. It decides one thing: how much raw compute can physically exist. It tells you what you can run. It says nothing about how much useful work comes out the other end.
Published 3 June 2026 in The Other Half of Compute
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