Elon Musk

People are going to hit the wall big time on power generation.

They already are.

So the number of miracles and series that the XAI team had to accomplish in order to get a gigawatt of power online was crazy.

We had to gang together a whole bunch of turbines.

And then we had permit issues in Tennessee and had to go across the border to Mississippi, which is fortunately only a few miles away.

But then we still had to run the high power lines a few miles and build a power plant in Mississippi.

And it was very difficult to build that.

And people don't understand how much electricity do you actually need at the generation level in order to power a data center.

Because the news will look at the power consumption of, say, a GB300 and multiply that by a thing and then think that's the amount of power you need.

All the cooling and everything.

Wake up.

Yeah, that's a total noob.

You've never done any hardware in your life before.

Besides the GB300, you've got to power all of the networking hardware.

There's a whole bunch of CPU and storage stuff that's happening.

You've got to size for your peak cooling requirements.

So that means can you cool even on the worst hours, the worst day of the year?

It's pretty freaking hot in Memphis.

You're going to have a 40% increase on your power just for cooling.

Assuming you don't want your data center to turn off on hot days and you want it to keep going.