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by zozbot234 482 days ago
> It was mentioned during the launch that current datacenter requires up to 0.25 gigawatts of power. The datacenter they're currently building will require 1.25 (5x) (for reference, a nuclear powerplant might output about 1 gigawatt).

IIRC achieving full AGI requires precisely 1.21 jigawatts of power, since that's when the model begins to learn at a geometric rate. But I think I saw this figure mentioned in a really old TV documentary from the 1980s, it may or may not be fully accurate.

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The funny part was that none of his workers recognized the film, which was a blockbuster. A veritable "I must be getting old" moment.