drop in the bucket

But that is a drop in the bucket. xAI needs $18 billion just to buy the 300,000 microchips required to run Colossus 2, its second giant data center in Tennessee, the Journal previously reported.

And yet, he added, this deal is “a drop in the bucket compared to where we need to go.”

Their assets are still a drop in the bucket of the $7.4 trillion sitting in traditional money-market funds, according to the Investment Company Institute.

“The private and public loss is so vast here. Whatever assets this guy has, I would say, wouldn’t even qualify as a drop in the bucket.”

On the balance sheets of multibillion-dollar companies, the cost of private aviation is a drop in the bucket of jet fuel.