By Aman Gupta
Publication Date: 2025-11-17 10:04:00
Elon Musk roasted Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman for boasting about spending “15 million labour hours” on building the company’s new data center. Suleyman, while comparing the development to the building of the Empire State Building, had said that the famous monument took less than half the time at 7 million labour hours.
“Already our Fairwater datacenter in Atlanta has taken over 15 million labor hours to build, even more once it’s fully finished. For comparison the Empire State Building took 7 million,” Suleyman wrote in a post on X.
Responding to the post, Musk wrote, “Are you sure you’re doing it right?”
Notably, Elon Musk’s xAI had reportedly set up a data center last year with 100,000 liquid cooled NVIDIA H100 graphic processing units (GPUs) in just 19 days that had also drawn praise from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
In a conversation with Tesla Owners Silicon Valley, Huang said, “As far as I know, there’s only one person in the world who could do that; Elon is…