"Nvidia's Blackwell pulls down 15kW of power. That's 15,000 watts of power. Data center energy usage is already out of control, but Blackwell is going to pour jet fuel on it. Worse still, Huang said that in the future, he expects to see millions of these kinds of AI processors in use. One million Blackwell GPUs would suck down an astonishing 1.875 gigawatts of power. A typical nuclear power plant only produces 1 gigawatt of power."
https://www.techradar.com/computing/i-watched-nvidias-computex-2024-keynote-and-it-made-my-blood-run-cold?
Gerry McGovern /
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2024-07-30 05:17:15
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