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Pushing AI System Cooling To The Limits Without Immersion

May 15, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Here is a question for you. What is harder to get right now: 1,665 of Nvidia’s “Blackwell” B200 GPU compute engines or 10 megawatts of power for a four year contract in the Northeast region of the United States? …

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Oracle Has Some Big Advantages To Mainstream AI

March 12, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Oracle’s cloud may be been in the running to be the host of a massive AI training system for Elon Musk’s xAI startup, with a purported $10 billion in rentals at stake. …

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Anthropic And OpenAI Show Why Musk Should Build A Cloud

November 25, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

If Amazon is going to make you pay for the custom AI advantage that it wants to build over rivals Google and Microsoft, then it needs to have the best models possible running on its homegrown accelerators. …

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Green Acres Is The Place For Larry

September 11, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 9

UPDATED: Some people are obsessed by crowd sizes, others by their net worth, and still others by the size of their AI datacenters. …

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So Who Is Building That 100,000 GPU Cluster For xAI?

July 30, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 9

The companies under the control of Elon Musk – SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, and X (formerly known as Twitter) – all need a hell of a lot of GPUs, and all for their own specific AI or HPC projects. …

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