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by wmf 1055 days ago
That's my point; if silicon demand shits from mobile to AI data centers you can't expect energy consumption to be the same.
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Demand right now is not shifting from mobile to datacenter, demand is shifting from "normal" datacenter compute to AI datacenter compute.

I think if you had said "AMD Epyc" rather than a mobile chip, that would be a much more apt comparison. The AI chips are somewhat more power intensive per box, but fairly similar on power/area. It turns out that these silicon processes are fairly uniform in terms of the power/area that they can sustain for any kind of workload.

Mobile chips are designed for <10% utilization and "rush-to-idle" workloads, and they are not remotely comparable to datacenter silicon (of any kind).