How much AI can you get from a kilowatt?
For years, the efficiency conversation in data centres has revolved around a familiar set of numbers. How much power does the IT equipment consume? How much additional energy goes into cooling and other infrastructure? How efficiently does the facility use the electricity it receives?
Power Usage Effectiveness became the shorthand for that conversation. Now AI is beginning to make that metric feel incomplete.
The question is no longer only how efficiently a data centre consumes electricity. It is also what that electricity produces. As GPU clusters become denser and AI workloads consume enormous amounts of power, the more consequential measure may be how much useful computation can be generated from every kilowatt.
Sunil Gupta, Co-founder, Managing Director and CEO, Yotta Data Services, believes this is where the industry’s efficiency debate needs to move. “The measure should be how much compute I can generate per kilowatt, how much compute I can...
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