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▲ smuhakg 2 hours ago

> The only real systemic risk is the risk of for some reason not needing any data centers.

How is this not a systemic risk? Asserting that:

> There's still a need for data centers to host non-AI servers.

Isn't true because a NVL72 rack consumes 23x the power of a traditional server rack which is why there's new construction. You could retrofit such a datacenter with normal servers but then you're taking a loss on the GPUs which is the majority of the cost.

https://epoch.ai/data-insights/ai-datacenter-cost-breakdown

▲hnav an hour ago | parent [-]

Wonder if we'll see ultra-dense CPU compute (1000s of cores in 1U) to take advantage of this power density whether the AI bubble pops or not.