Accelerator Total Cost Simulator

Adjust utilisation, power, electricity prices, and amortisation to see yearly TCO for a 512-accelerator cluster. Defaults follow public pricing disclosures from NVIDIA, Google Cloud TPU, AMD, and Groq.

Accelerators (per cluster) 512 units

Average utilisation 75%

Electricity price (USD/kWh) $0.12

Depreciation horizon (years) 3 years

Cooling overhead 30% of IT load

Accelerator	Yearly capex amortisation	Yearly energy + cooling	Support/licensing	Total annual TCO

Capex estimates: NVIDIA H100 SXM5 $32k (list), Google TPU v5e subscription $2.25/hr, AMD MI300X $29k, Groq LPU $18k. Power draws sourced from vendor datasheets. Maintenance assumed at 12% of capex annually unless cloud subscription bundles support.