[karma_pharmer]

From the article:

> there is a glass bridge to a warmer area, a balmy 77 K that hosts the DRAM. The DRAM technology is not superconducting,

There is a lot of not-superconducting circuitry in that shoebox; without it you wouldn't have enough memory to do anything that qualifies as "AI".

The reasonable conclusion is that the power figure covers only the components they have described. Note that the article fails to mention the word "cryocooler" even once.

I know of other research groups (not IMEC) who are pretty shameless about excluding cryocooler power and cost from all of their press-release/popsci materials. It's considered acceptable in this field.