Rao: Trillion-dollar GPU data centers are physically impossible to power
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Naveen Rao, CEO of Unconventional AI and former MosaicML founder, responds to industry hype surrounding massive AI data center infrastructure at a Playground Global panel.
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“None of this is physically realizable, right? That's what's really kind of annoying to me. I'm like, okay, you're talking about, you know, a trillion dollars of GPUs. Where the fuck are you gonna get the power for that? I'm sorry, right? Like you're just, you're not gonna be able to build these things physically.”
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