Data Centers
This was a weird video: source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxUEOdC4VzU The weirdest thing to me is that data centers are rated by the power they use in gigawatts ! Here is a snip from a EE Times story about an OpenAI and AMD deal: . Lisa Su of AMD and Sam Altman of OpenAI A gigawatt is 1,000,000,000 watts or 1000 megawatts (nuclear power plants like Point Beach in Wisconsin are a pair of 625 megawatt plants). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Beach_Nuclear_Plant Maybe it's the QRPer in me, but why would anyone rate an AI Data Center by power rather than gigaflops or whatever the actual computing benchmarks are for AI, tokens ? what are those ? After viewing that video this Wisconsin data center seems sketchy to me: https://constructionreviewonline.com/openai-oracle-and-vantage-to-build-15b-lighthouse-data-center-campus-in-wisconsin/ It reminds me of this: https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2023/03/foxconn.html They knocked down some houses, did a lot of land grad...