Leading AI supercomputer requires 9 GW

6.8 significance by Trends in AI Supercomputers Compute June 2030

Why does it matter?

A 9 GW training site would make power availability one of the hardest constraints on frontier AI.

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However, 9 GW of power is equivalent to 9 nuclear reactors, a scale beyond any existing industrial facility. To overcome power constraints, companies may increasingly use decentralized training approaches, which would allow them to distribute a training run across AI supercomputers in several locations.

Trends in AI Supercomputers