Despite Elon Musk’s data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2012500968571637891″ target=”_blank” data-url=”https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2012500968571637891″ referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>announcement on Monday that xAI’s Colossus 2 data center had reached a 1 GW scale, the supercomputer is not even close to that, a satellite image published by data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/2013378462913044656″ target=”_blank” data-url=”https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/2013378462913044656″ referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>Epoch AI researchers reveals.
Based on 550,000 Nvidia Blackwell AI accelerators, xAI’s Colossus 2 is advertised as the industry’s first AI facility that consumes one gigawatt of power for AI inference and training. But for now, the data center codenamed ‘Macrohard’ purportedly only has 350 MW of cooling capacity — not nearly…
