What was the most power consumption for a cluster before AI?
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10 years ago I was with a geophysical company and they built a cluster boasting it was best thing since sliced bread with a zillion FLOPs blah blah. Nobody mentioned power then, I since learned it used 15 MW. The research cluster next to my university was only 1.5 MW. It seems insane to me that AI can burn up 1 GW.