Global AI computing capacity added each quarter doubles roughly every nine months
READ THE ORIGINAL SOURCEOpen original sourceepoch.ai · Opens in a new tabEpoch AI estimates quarterly additions of global AI computing capacity, measured in H100-equivalents, from six chip designers (Nvidia, Google, AMD, Amazon, Huawei, Cambricon). Quarterly additions rose from 0.8 million H100e in Q1 2024 to 6.3 million in Q2 2026. A fitted trend shows about 2.5× growth per year, a doubling time of roughly 9.1 months. Growth in quarterly additions appears to be slowing, but the trend is not statistically significant.
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Epoch AI estimates quarterly additions of global AI computing capacity, measured in H100-equivalents, from six chip designers (Nvidia, Google, AMD, Amazon, Huawei, Cambricon). Quarterly additions rose from 0.8 million H100e in Q1 2024 to 6.3 million in Q2 2026. A fitted trend shows about 2.5× growth per year, a doubling time of roughly 9.1 months. Growth in quarterly additions appears to be slowing, but the trend is not statistically significant.
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- Quarterly AI chip capacity additions rose from 0.8 million H100e in Q1 2024 to 6.3 million in Q2 2026.
- The fitted trend is about 2.5× per year, with a doubling time of 9.1 months (90% CI: 8.4 to 10.0 months).
- Quarterly growth shows a downward trend, but it is not statistically significant (p = 0.26).
- Growth in quarterly additions fell from roughly 6× in 2023 to about 2.5× per year since 2024.
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Epoch AI estimates that quarterly additions of AI computing capacity from six chip designers, including Nvidia, Google, AMD, Amazon, Huawei and Cambricon, have grown about 2.5x per year since 2024, down from roughly 6x in 2023.
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Tracking how fast AI compute capacity is added helps gauge the pace of AI infrastructure buildout. The estimates depend on sales data and a short ten-quarter window, so the trend should be read with those limits in mind.
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