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To: PeterPrinciple

“The AI PU was created to execute ...

I think the AI PUs are fast adders, multipliers, etc. They’re a bunch of transistors most of which are always switching from 0 to 1 or vice versa. It’s a “switch” that consumes energy.

Contrast this with a memory chip, which has thousands of transistors but only a small fraction are switching at a given time.

Thus, the AI PUs are energy gobblers. Put a bunch of them together, each running essentially the same not-so-imaginative software, and you have these data centers that can gobble a Three Mile Island unit.


10 posted on 11/13/2024 12:36:58 PM PST by cymbeline
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To: cymbeline

Thus, the AI PUs are energy gobblers. Put a bunch of them together, each running essentially the same not-so-imaginative software, and you have these data centers that can gobble a Three Mile Island unit.


Thanks for the explanation.

and for this extra energy we will get more answers that are possibilities with multiple decimal points?

ok, technology is appropriate for some uses. But I have the feeling this technology will be used for improper uses.


11 posted on 11/13/2024 12:41:19 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: cymbeline

That’s what I have heard, and why nuclear power plants will be needed, not sun & wind energy generators which may be green, but are so inefficient that render them to being useless.


12 posted on 11/13/2024 12:45:11 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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