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petra · 2017-04-07 15:21:55+00:00

Without a reasonable estimate on how much money that will require that's still very vague.

xutopia | karma 4193 | avg karma 3.43 · | 2012-07-27 19:28:42+00:00

TLDR: It won't cost that much but we really don't know how much it will cost.

cryptoz | karma 19110 | avg karma 4.75 · | 2015-12-25 22:50:53+00:00

Really? I've never heard a figure that high. I think the estimates currently are about $50B, spread out over 10 years or so.

onion2k | karma 46633 | avg karma 4.72 · | 2018-08-14 20:27:27

When they say it'll cost $2b I think that's in addition to what's already being spent.

cinntaile | karma 4441 | avg karma 1.74 · | 2021-12-31 14:28:31

I find it quite worrying that this cost is not disclosed, this makes me think it's higher than we assume.

ErikVandeWater | karma 2328 | avg karma 2.42 · | 2021-07-06 17:32:03+00:00

Putting "actual" in quotes. Estimating the cost is insanely difficult.

Giorgi | karma 411 | avg karma 0.72 · | 2022-12-14 06:34:31

it's cost? just several billions.

Ultramanoid | karma 3140 | avg karma 3.11 · | 2019-04-18 04:19:41

The cost as well as the duration of the process has been revised several times since 2011, and will be revised again in the decades to come. It is nonsense to put a definitive figure on it now. Or in 20 years.

tqi | karma 3550 | avg karma 3.44 · | 2021-07-07 12:06:02

Reading the article, it's unclear to me what the cost actually is?

bagels | karma 6530 | avg karma 2.47 · | 2023-02-04 23:28:47

It's going to cost hundreds of thousands or millions, won't it?

sgjohnson | karma 2077 | avg karma 1.78 · | 2022-06-15 03:50:49

> We estimate it would cost over $13 billion

So basically it's less than what the U.S. Federal Government spends in one day (FY2021 spending totalled $6.83tn). Unrealistic.

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dotnet00 | karma 7004 | avg karma 2.9 · | 2024-01-07 00:21:07

That number isn't really convincing coming from the project that was initially expected to cost $1B and over time ballooned to $10B.

etiam | karma 9036 | avg karma 6.61 · | 2018-01-11 22:30:50+00:00

Estimate for what the cost is going to be, initially and eventually?

charles_f | karma 5337 | avg karma 4.8 · | 2023-10-29 00:53:25

In this specific case the estimate is likely a vast underestimation of the cost of work.

rezeroed | karma -16 | avg karma -0.05 · | 2019-09-20 14:37:54+00:00

I've heard estimates along the lines of two person years of work, and $500 000.

mathgeek | karma 2756 | avg karma 2.46 · | 2018-04-09 11:13:57

For the lazy, this would require an ongoing investment of just over $40,000 currently.

jsight | karma 6940 | avg karma 1.91 · | 2020-03-18 19:29:20

I feel like this cost is being badly underestimated.

icelancer | karma 12767 | avg karma 3.13 · | 2017-12-29 11:43:55+00:00

There is the definite possibility that it actually costs something like $69 billion, in fairness.

devoply | karma 1241 | avg karma 0.74 · | 2019-03-30 02:46:54+00:00

You don't. It costs at least a few billion dollars.

pricechild | karma 774 | avg karma 2.17 · | 2017-10-25 09:47:14+00:00

Lets be realistic, probably a 6'ish figure sum to get the bureaucracy completed. Still, peanuts.