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OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems

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Re: OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems

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Strange unit of measurement. Who would find that more useful than expected compute or even just the number of chips.

It's a very useful reference point actually because once you hit 1.21 GW the AI model begins to learn at a geometric rate and we finally get to real AGI. Last I've heard this was rumored as a prediction for AI 2027, so we're almost there already.

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Re: OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems

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For someone who doesn't know what a gigawat worth of Nvidia systems is, how many high-end H100 or whatever does this get you? My estimates along with some poor-grade GPT research leads me to think it could be nearly 10 million? That does seem insane.

How much cable (and what kind) to connect them all? That number would be 100x the number of gpus. I would think they just clip on metal racks no cables but then I saw the xai data center that can blue wire cables everywhere

Re: OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems

#56

Did I miss the part where they mention the 10 large nuclear plants needed to power this new operation? Where's all the power coming from for this?

Build this thing in the middle of the desert and you would need around 100 sq mile of solar panels + a fuck load of batteries for it to be energy independent. The solar farm would be around $10 billion which is probably far less than the gpus cost

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Re: OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems

#57

Can we get some laws to force these companies to start subsidizing the consumer grids they're pummeling? The electric bills are getting out of hand.

What will happen if/when the AI bubble pops and there is far more grid capacity than demand? Power plant bailouts?

Re: OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems

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Did I miss the part where they mention the 10 large nuclear plants needed to power this new operation? Where's all the power coming from for this?

Also, the fact they they announce not how much computing power they are going to deploy but rather how much electricity it's going to use (as if power usage is a useful measurement of processing power) is kind of gross.

"Good news everybody, your power bills are going up and your creaking, chronically underfunded infrastructure is even closer to collapse!"

Re: OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems

#60

Wouldn't Nvidia be better served investing the $100B in expanding GPU manufacturing capacity?

By investing in TSMC? By buying TSMC? I don't think $100B would buy them enough current generation capacity to make a difference from scratch.
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