Will I ever own a zettaflop?

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.