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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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Meta study: AI energy costs split evenly across pre-processing, training, and inference
“There was a study we did when I was a visiting research scientist at Meta where we Found that energy costs for AI were roughly broken into three categories. There's a data pre-processing aspect as well, and that's about a third. The training is another third, …”
Dr. Ben Lee Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 11:52 Will inference move to the edge?
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