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China activates 1,240-mile-wide 'giant computer', offers 98% efficiency of single data centre

The 1,243-mile-wide computing power pool could achieve 98% of the efficiency of a single data centre. After the distant ...
Cybernews

China heats up AI race by launching giant computing power pool

A massive computing power pool has just come into operation in China, which could be used for the development of advanced ...
China Daily

State Grid and China Telecom successfully transfer computing power across provinces

The State Grid Shanghai Electric Power Co, together with China Telecom, ran a successful technical test of rapidly transferring multi-task computing power across provinces between Shanghai and Fujian ...
PC Magazine

Elon Musk: 1M Nvidia GPUs? Nah, My Supercomputers Need the Power of 50M

Musk today tweeted that xAI aims for compute power that's on par with 50 million Nvidia H100 GPUs, the enterprise-grade graphics chip widely used for AI training and running chatbots. "The xAI goal is ...
Business Insider

AI runs on dirty power — and the public pays the price

The data center boom is driving utilities to torpedo renewable energy goals and rely on fossil fuels, pushing data centers' expected air-pollution-related public health costs to between $5.7 billion ...
The New York Times

At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.

On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up. On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, ...