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Is the next crunch in the AI race the lack of data center space?

1 HN point • 26 Feb 24
🕹 Technology AI Data Centers Energy consumption Infrastructure Market Dynamics
  1. The AI industry might face a shortage of data center space with the increase in NVIDIA H100 GPUs.
  2. The energy consumption from the forecasted 4.5 million H100 GPUs in 2023/24 could exceed the data center capacity, posing a challenge.
  3. Existing data centers may struggle to retrofit the necessary equipment and manage the power demands of the upcoming surge in GPU servers.