--- title: Will I ever own a zettaflop? | daily.dev description: A personal reflection by George Hotz (geohot) on the dream of owning a zettaflop-scale computing system. He outlines the current state of compute at comma.ai... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/will-i-ever-own-a-zettaflop--n54dfkz2g twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Will I ever own a zettaflop? | daily.dev og:description: A personal reflection by George Hotz (geohot) on the dream of owning a zettaflop-scale computing system. He outlines the current state of compute at comma.ai... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/will-i-ever-own-a-zettaflop--n54dfkz2g og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/N54dFkZ2G.png og:image:alt: Will I ever own a zettaflop? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Will I ever own a zettaflop? **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A personal reflection by George Hotz (geohot) on the dream of owning a zettaflop-scale computing system. He outlines the current state of compute at comma.ai (near an exaflop), envisions what a zettaflop would enable (equivalent to a million Claude instances), and sketches a rough cost breakdown: $10M for chips, $10M for solar power infrastructure, and $10M for land — totaling $30M. He argues that power efficiency improvements (targeting 10 MW at 10x better FLOPS/W) will eventually make personal zettaflop ownership feasible within his lifetime. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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