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Paul Kudrowski

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457 total appearances

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Plain English with Derek Thompson
Plain English BEST OF: This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst

And I'm hoping to get people to move in.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Plain English BEST OF: This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst

I'm building a shell and people are moving in and I'm hoping to get tenants and then the tenants pay rent.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Plain English BEST OF: This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst

Right.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Plain English BEST OF: This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst

So think of it in those terms.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Plain English BEST OF: This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst

And then there's the Metas and the Googles and the Amazons where they're using a huge amount of what they're building, which, again, roughly.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Plain English BEST OF: This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst

50% to 60% of it is the GPU cost.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Plain English BEST OF: This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst

The rest is a combination of cooling and energy.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Plain English BEST OF: This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst

And then a relatively small component is the actual construction.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Plain English BEST OF: This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst

So think about the frame of the building, the concrete pad, and purchasing the real estate.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Plain English BEST OF: This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst

So you can break it out that way.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Plain English BEST OF: This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst

So it depends a little bit on what you're planning to use it for.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Plain English BEST OF: This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst

If I'm trying to build something that's for training, well, I'm going to buy more expensive GPUs,

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Plain English BEST OF: This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst

I need the latest products from NVIDIA.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Plain English BEST OF: This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst

If I'm building something that's more for inference, meaning that I'm just going to have using it largely for people that are trying to generate responses, I'm hoping, well, then I don't need the latest GPUs and I can cut costs and cut some corners in there.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Plain English BEST OF: This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst

So you can think about it as that continuum.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Plain English BEST OF: This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst

So I'll start at a high level.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Plain English BEST OF: This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst

This is my complaint about economic statistics in general.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Plain English BEST OF: This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst

You know, this is plain English, right?

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Plain English BEST OF: This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst

So capital expenditures is such a misnomer in such a, I'll say misleading, but it's not consciously misleading.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Plain English BEST OF: This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst

It's just that it's so aggregated up.