PUE

2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 18, 2024 by Christian Belady · across every show →

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Jul 18, 2024
Assertion Supported
Belady: Modern data center backrooms consume only 10% to 20% of power
“And at one time that was like, Two to three times the power was consumed in the back room, and then with the advent of PUE, people really focused on making data centers much more efficient, so now only about 10 to 20% of the power in a data center is consumed …”
Christian Belady Jul 18, 2024 ▶ 6:08 Can chip efficiency slow AI's energy demand?
Dec 18, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Google achieves a data center power usage effectiveness near 1.1
“Google's PUE is close to 1.1, which is to say for every watt going to compute, there's an additional .1 watts going to the overheads of power delivery or cooling or whatever.”
Dr. Ben Lee Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 8:59 Will inference move to the edge?
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