“We need to get much more efficient at delivering the power networks… moving to 800 volt DC data center… eliminate so many conversion steps”
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Pat Gelsinger
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Advocated optimizing the entire stack - from power delivery to GPU selection and networking - to lower cost per token in data centers
“We need to get much more efficient at delivering the power networks… moving to 800 volt DC data center… eliminate so many conversion steps”
“You’d be surprised how underutilized GPUs are… if you also just aggregate things globally… squeeze out of the available hardware to lower these costs”
“They were able to eliminate something like 98% of the total data center cost with these like chicken coop type data centers.”
“Some companies have actually saved money by applying AI, but it's being replaced by all the spend with the tokens and data centers…”
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