Dwarkesh Gets Inside Microsoft's Fairwater 2: Over 2 GW Total Capacity, and a Single Building Beats Any Existing AI Datacenter

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As part of his Satya Nadella interview, Patel received an exclusive first look at Microsoft's Fairwater 2 datacenter, which will exceed 2 GW of total capacity — with Nadella claiming even one building is more powerful than any AI datacenter currently in existence. This is the concrete infrastructure number behind Altman's warning earlier this month that inference demand is the binding constraint. For builders, gigawatt-scale single sites are the reason to expect rate limits to loosen on a construction timeline, not a software one.