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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev ("cthos 🐱") wrote:

Alright, I should know better to engage with certain types of discourse :tm: but I need to talk about something in particular.

Datacenters. Because apparently I need to point out that the size and scale of AI datacenters *in particular* are categorically different from traditional data centers.

For one, the things that are going into them are different. In traditional webapp contexts you don't need a warehouse full of Nvidia H100s that pull 1000W *by themselves* (depending on the version)