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A look at the deluge of AI computing power set to come online in the coming years; Epoch AI expects the number of AI chips in use to double every nine months (New York Times)
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WHY IT MATTERS
If this doubling rate holds, infrastructure planning for data centers, power, and cooling will need to accelerate dramatically. Engineers building or operating systems that depend on GPU availability should expect both expanding supply and intensifying competition for that supply.
Written by elseif from the cluster below · every claim links back to a sourceThe three things worth knowing
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Epoch AI forecasts AI chip count doubling every nine months, a faster cadence than traditional hardware scaling timelines.
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The projection implies a significant expansion of AI compute capacity coming online in the coming years.
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Only one feed carried this story, so corroboration of the specific nine-month doubling claim is limited.
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A look at the deluge of AI computing power set to come online in the coming years; Epoch AI expects the number of AI chips in use to double every nine months (New York Times)
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