[oezi]

At least one graph showing global total datacenter compute over time and projected to come online would have been helpful.

[no-name-here]

https://epoch.ai/data-insights/ai-chip-production from the beginning of 2026 claimed global AI compute capacity was doubling every 7 months.

[incognito124]

> from the beginning of 2026 claimed global AI compute capacity was doubling every 7 months.

That's definitely one way to say "it doubled this year"

[computerphage]

I read it as "was posted earlier this year. It claimed that compute has been doubling every seven months for quite some time, on average"

[no-name-here]

No, it was "<linked article> from the beginning of 2026 claimed <x>." Also, if you open the article, you'll see the data goes back multiple years, but does not cover 2026 (as it was posted at the beginning of 2026).

[Mistletoe]

Graphs like this are all I can think of when I see unsustainable euphoria like above.

https://www.bigtrends.com/education/lessons-from-the-past-10...

[jcattle]

Ah I thought you would link https://xkcd.com/605/

[post-it]

Not what it says.

> We fit a trend to the quarterly quantities of AI compute sold, as measured in H100-equivalents. We find that computing capacity has been growing by 3.3x per year, equivalent to a doubling time of 7 months.

This is just a graph of cash changing hands. I transferred a loonie from one hand to the other one trillion times this morning and have the largest data centre in the world.