“ You have to ask what you can literally‘ Legoise,’” he says.“ Because honestly, we don’ t know what the next GPU generation is going to bring – and then we’ re back to the drawing board.”
Jamie adds:“ The only kind of fungible thing you can really do at the moment is to plan a data centre to an envelope that you know will work from a prefabricated perspective, and that allows you to change the pods later on. That’ s the only way to really catch this technology shift.”
Can we power the AI age? The closing question— whether the industry can actually generate enough power to meet AI’ s exponential demand— drew candid responses.
Lonnie notes that the UK is technically capable of generating more electricity than it needs. The problem is getting it from where it is produced to where it is needed.
“ We’ ve got legacy infrastructure— cables overhead and in the ground— that are past their due date,” says Lonnie.“ The infrastructure won’ t allow that to happen.”
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