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Not sure what you think demand is, but operators are building 10 GW AI datacenters. Assuming a GPU consumes ~1 kW, the number is potentially (upper bound) 10 GW
by zekrioca 1y ago
Not sure what you think demand is, but operators are building 10 GW AI datacenters. Assuming a GPU consumes ~1 kW, the number is potentially (upper bound) 10 GW / 1 kW, way larger than ‘1000’. For one company.
- lostmsu 1y agoStill drop in the bucket considering world total electricity production is about 10 TW. Where did you read one company? I found 10 GW new capacity next year for the entire industry.
- zekrioca 1y agoIt is not a drop in the bucket when we are talking about a factor of 1000000 (and not 100 as your initially calculated), on par with buildings and transportation, only behind agriculture.
- lostmsu 1y agoMe? Also, 100 was the number of trained LLMs. Do you think there will be 1 000 000 trained at the same time at some point?
- zekrioca 1y agoSorry, @OP, not you :) Yes, there will be. But the point is that potentially, all of these GPUs will be at 100% at all times, which makes the 1 000 000 realistic.