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Yea.. I built a hosting company and data centre from 96-2010. I run a data company now..I keep seeing gigawatts being discussed and I'm like, this is bollocks.

This is just that "Meet Potential Man" meme but for a whole industry, isn't it?

This suggests they have sold them, but as you suggest, the majority are just sitting unused... Or being rotated in to extend lifespans maybe? The lack of electrical power to run all of them is sort of wild though.

they don't have to share it so they don't!

AWS has deployed them or are you talking about something else? aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance...

these are all unrelated, but god jensen could just be including consumer gpus in the 6m number

What does this mean in terms of energy consumption? How do the A100 and H100 compare to a Blackwell? Comparatively minor or big, particularly at scale?

WHAT?

i have one blackwell gpu in my computer!

Somewhere, a T-800 is daisy-chaining together SkyNet.

Into The Black Well, I guess

Unrelated, what's Jeffrey Skilling up to these days?

So is Jensen Huang selling chips that are gathering dust in warehouses? Makes me think of that Wallstreet Journal chart showing the amount of data center capacity actually built going DOWN every year since 2022 even as "underway", "planned", and interestingly "stalled" have risen.

Well I certainly hope you’re correct

Not the most ridiculous idea. Google has publicized that they’ve been running posts of Gemini on their own priority CPUs

6mil GPUs is what, 3.5GW? (ish)

Maybe they should try hooking up colossus to guardian.

I want to see the GPU storage warehouse. I want to breath in the scent of plastic shrink wrap and hubris.

that's actually confirmed as happening!

every time i hear compute capacity measured i wonder what happened to the good old giga/teraFLOP.