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AI’s insatiable thirst for electricity is expected to surge in the coming years.
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AI’s insatiable thirst for electricity is expected to surge in the coming years.
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Photonic computing startup Lightmatter has raised $400 million to blow one of modern data centers’ bottlenecks wide open. The company’s optical interconnect layer allows hundreds of GPUs to work synchronously, streamlining the costly and complex job of training and running AI models. The growth of AI and its correspondingly immense compute requirements have supercharged the […]
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The GPUs and other chips used to train AI communicate with each other inside data centers through “interconnects.” But those interconnects have limited bandwidth, which limits AI training performance. A 2022 survey found that AI developers typically struggle to use more than 25% of a GPU’s capacity. One solution could be new interconnects with much […]
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With the deal, Google joins Microsoft and Amazon in turning to nuclear power to satiate its thirst for electricity.
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