Amin Vahdat

7 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 23, 2026 by Amin Vahdat · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2026 · across every show →

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Apr 23, 2026
Assertion Supported
Vahdat: AI accelerator power density is 100x higher than storage
“And the difference between storage and compute was at most 10 X. The difference between storage and accelerators are approaching a hundred X.”
Amin Vahdat Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 35:13 Inside Google’s massive AI capex (live)
Apr 23, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Vahdat: Google trades uptime for capacity in customer co-design
“Without saying too much, it's happening. I would say there's actually the co-design there with our customers at Google has been one of our sources of significant efficiency.”
Amin Vahdat Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 14:01 Inside Google’s massive AI capex (live)
Apr 23, 2026 positive
Insight
Vahdat: The AI industry should accept lower-reliability power delivery
“No, it is not intrinsic and we should be thinking about lower reliability power delivery overall.”
Amin Vahdat Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 12:16 Inside Google’s massive AI capex (live)
Apr 23, 2026
Disclosure
Vahdat: Google does not use blank workloads to smooth training power draw
“We don't do this, but yes, others.”
Amin Vahdat Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 36:05 Inside Google’s massive AI capex (live)
Apr 23, 2026
Insight
Vahdat: Dominant compute costs force data centers to sacrifice fungibility
“If compute is not the dominant portion of your cost, you actually want to have flexibility and fungibility. When compute becomes a more dominant portion of your cost, you now actually are thinking, okay, what am I going to do for this year, next year, and the …”
Amin Vahdat Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 34:56 Inside Google’s massive AI capex (live)
Apr 23, 2026
Insight
Vahdat: AI scaling bottlenecks constantly rotate between labor, power, and chips
“When delivering the end-to-end, we unfortunately don't have the luxury of focusing on a single limiter. I would say very sincerely and honestly at 10 a.m. It's labor, at noon it's power, and at two p.m. It's chips every single day.”
Amin Vahdat Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 26:10 Inside Google’s massive AI capex (live)
Apr 23, 2026 negative
Opinion
Vahdat: The AI data center community is underinvested in microgrid software control
“The microgrid and the software control here is going to be absolutely key. And this is a place where I think we as a community are under invested today.”
Amin Vahdat Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 21:45 Inside Google’s massive AI capex (live)
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