News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:In a first, Google has released data on how much energy a... by westurner on Thursday August 21, 2025 @06:51PM (#44979105)
TPUs are more efficient at LLMs because they do more TOPS/KWh.

"OpenTPU: Open-Source Reimplementation of Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)" (2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44111452

"A Comparison of the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Integration Technology with Nvidia GPU-based Systems for Artificial Intelligence" (2025) https://arxiv.org/html/2503.11698v1

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648575 :

> "Next-generation datacenters consume zero water for cooling" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42376406

>> this design will avoid the need for more than 125 million liters of water per year per datacenter

"Microsoft’s Datacenter Community Pledge: To build and operate digital infrastructure that addresses societal challenges and creates benefits for communities" (2024-06) https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/06/02/microsofts-datac... :

> We will design and operate our datacenters to support society’s climate goals and become carbon negative, water positive and zero waste before 2030. [...]

> By 2025, we will procure 100% renewable energy on a global scale, both significantly expanding and decarbonizing local electricity grids.

> Our datacenter designs are more water efficient than traditional enterprise datacenters, and our plan by 2030 is to replenish more water than we consume locally.

Here's this about CNT cooling:

"Cyberpower begins selling desktop PCs with carbon nanotube CPU cooling" (2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44899495

"A carbon-nanotube-based tensor processing unit" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41322070

Graphene semiconductors should be at least 10X more energy efficient; but how much less water would graphene-based chips waste?

There are no comments on this comment yet.