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  • The Schmidt Number Collapse: The “Eternal Bootstrap” Era of AI Infrastructure

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    Report – 31 May 2026, by Jeremiah Josey Executive Summary On 14 May 2026, former Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt articulated a key metric during a public address to the Special Competitive Studies Project, stating that AI infrastructure costs approximately USD 50 billion per gigawatt of compute capacity. Using this “round number” baseline, Schmidt calculated…