jankeymeulen

A decent EV will let you do 300km at highway speed. Starting at 100% at home, that's 4 times a 45 minutes break every 2.5 hours, which is a good idea anyway.

From the article: 1.859 billion kWh. Divide by 1 year = 212 megawatt. Definitely not small. Not that gigantic either, compared to current day (US) AI/hyperscalers.

Storage densities these days are kinda amazing, it's not that much of a datacenter. Assuming you chunk it with triple redundancy, that's 220k TB raw. 10k 22 TB disks, you put them in one of those 4U 50 disk storage pods. 200 pods, 10 of those in a rack with some space left for a switch and power, so that's only 20 racks.

Adding more 9s is costly, and AI training is very suitable to be throttled and/or interrupted. I'm not talking about days or weeks of downtime, but these things are definitely being considered. Source: I'm working at a Google datacenter.

See e.g. this post from Urs Hölze, one of the fathers of hyperscale computing: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/urs-h%C3%B6lzle_rethinking-lo...

Depends on the use case. Dedicated datacenters for ML training can trade off power reliability vs. other factors like cost or carbon emissions.

I was thinking the same, who on earth would want that, so did my technical colleagues, but since the AI summaries rolled out over here, non-technical folks I've asked about it actually seem to like it.

A 5V drop at 1000 Amps also means 5000 Watts of heat generated, you probably want something with less of a drop.

Not really, the whole point of this type of cloud offering is that it doesn't phone home to Google / the US. Sure, it will be left to the partner to support all of it, but it can't be shut down from one day to the other.

(Googler, opinion my own)

Take a look where (US) hyperscalers have presence, they still need to be able to expand.

The TPUs are highly integrated with the rest of the internal Google ecosystem, both hardware and software. Untangling that would be ... interesting.

but paper that ends up in the environment is almost surely better

There is a $6B increase in purchase of properties and equipment vs. 23Q1.

3 phase typically has 400V between the phases and neutral in Europe, the phases don't gain you anything, but the voltage does.

Small? I saw an SR-71 at National Air and Space Museum near Dulles and I was amazed by how big is for a two-seater.

Not really. Even the most evil Google one can imagine would realise "your data" is the most valuable thing they possess, selling it would be bad for business. They're selling ads to the highest bidder who's looking for someone with a profile based on your data, but not your data itself.

So is OpenAI actually, GPT -> transformer, invented at Google. DALL-E -> diffusion, invented at ... Google.

Good you mention a teflon-type coating in a discussion about 'forever chemicals'.

sound like just the caption of the stock photo copy/pasted, they typically have these kind of very specific descriptions

Amazon will pay perhaps $50 for a 10TB disk, 10x it to cover for redundancy and the servers and datacenters to put the disks in, and you're looking at "only" 16 mil savings for an exabyte.

They'd be retired by now, even the most junior engineer in 1970 would be into their seventies.

Like the Oberon OS and programming language?

Belgium (my country) imports about 400% of its domestic use in LNG, to then sell it to neighbouring countries via pipelines. Doesn't make sense if LNG was too expensive.

Or, instead of creating Bitcoin with excess energy, one could produce e.g. hydrogen. Which, compared to Bitcoin, has a lot more uses.

More likely someone actually will. A blameless postmortem will be written, and the people that will fix the bug or systems issue will have something to work on with high visibility and high impact, which tends to translate in good performance ratings.

(Googler, opinions are my own)

Yes.

For professional setups, typically you'd have a coax going from the roof somewhere to the rack inside the data center where your time server is located.

How's that? I could see climate change decreasing biodiversity for sure, but how would decreasing biodiversity lead to climate change?

Will Apple do it differently?

Good luck converting the BTC back to energy though.