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Silicon, steel and megawatts: Can America create the infrastructure needed to win the AI race?
2025-05-13
[FoxNews] At CoreWeave, we operate over 250,000 GPUs in more than 30 data centers, powering the next generation of AI models. But infrastructure at this scale doesn’t appear overnight.
Posted by:Skidmark

#2  I want to hear about matched building of the power plants necessary to support the vastly increased power needs for all this excess computing.

Last I heard, China was building huge numbers of coal-fired electrical plants, which incidentally was what was pushing them to first place for the planet’s CO2 generation.
Posted by: trailing wife   2025-05-13 22:33  

#1  Anyone remember the SETI@home screensaver?



I wonder if new age automobiles with digital control systems, self contained power, cooling and Internet access might be integrated into a massive crowdsourced AI cloud.

[Forbes]
How Many Cars Are There in the U.S.?
The number of registered vehicles in the United States increased by 3.5% between 2018 and 2022, from 269,417,884 registered vehicles to 278,870,463 registered vehicles, indicating an upward trend in car ownership.
Posted by: Skidmark   2025-05-13 10:12  

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