jankeymeulen

A decent EV will let you do 300km at highway speed. Starting at 100% at home, that's 4 times a 45 minutes break every 2.5 hours, which is a good idea anyway.

From the article: 1.859 billion kWh. Divide by 1 year = 212 megawatt. Definitely not small. Not that gigantic either, compared to current day (US) AI/hyperscalers.

Storage densities these days are kinda amazing, it's not that much of a datacenter. Assuming you chunk it with triple redundancy, that's 220k TB raw. 10k 22 TB disks, you put them in one of those 4U 50 disk storage pods. 200 pods, 10 of those in a rack with some space left for a switch and power, so that's only 20 racks.

Depends on the use case. Dedicated datacenters for ML training can trade off power reliability vs. other factors like cost or carbon emissions.

I was thinking the same, who on earth would want that, so did my technical colleagues, but since the AI summaries rolled out over here, non-technical folks I've asked about it actually seem to like it.

A 5V drop at 1000 Amps also means 5000 Watts of heat generated, you probably want something with less of a drop.

Not really, the whole point of this type of cloud offering is that it doesn't phone home to Google / the US. Sure, it will be left to the partner to support all of it, but it can't be shut down from one day to the other.

(Googler, opinion my own)

Take a look where (US) hyperscalers have presence, they still need to be able to expand.

The TPUs are highly integrated with the rest of the internal Google ecosystem, both hardware and software. Untangling that would be ... interesting.

but paper that ends up in the environment is almost surely better

There is a $6B increase in purchase of properties and equipment vs. 23Q1.

3 phase typically has 400V between the phases and neutral in Europe, the phases don't gain you anything, but the voltage does.

Small? I saw an SR-71 at National Air and Space Museum near Dulles and I was amazed by how big is for a two-seater.

Not really. Even the most evil Google one can imagine would realise "your data" is the most valuable thing they possess, selling it would be bad for business. They're selling ads to the highest bidder who's looking for someone with a profile based on your data, but not your data itself.