Christoph Becker19h ago

Amazing how many headlines parrot the corporate framing that Meta's new Hyperion data center would "deliver gigawatts of power" -

"AI data center ... will deliver five gigawatts of computational power to fuel the company's new AI" ❌

"[data center will] supply its new AI lab with five gigawatts of computational power" ❌

No. NO. Don't do that. Hyperion will *consume* 5GW of power, including three NEW new gas-turbine power plants, in order to run giant toxic content sludge generators. 💩 ✔

Show threadClaudius

@cbecker it's ridiculous that we even started listing electrical power.

It's the most meaningless thing about a datacenter. It says precisely nothing about what it can do, because what 5GW will yield depends SO MUCH on the ever-shifting technology.

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Show threadManni8h ago
@claudius @cbecker and it also implies that a dc will be loose value if they manage to make it more efficient.