To get an idea of how enormous the energy requirements for data centers are: "The Oracle contract will require 4.5 gigawatts of power capacity, roughly comparable to the electricity produced by more than two Hoover Dams or the amount consumed by about four million homes."
COMPUTING
-
GPU Hardware Strategy: RTX Pro 6000 Max-Q Acquisition Guide
By
–
Incremental acquisition Easier to sell when needed At this moment if I am getting any more Nvidia GPUs I'd do the RTX Pro 6000 Max-Q, minimum, but that's because my long term plans are different from when I started And I still wouldn't recommend people to start with them
-
OpenAI Signs $300B Oracle Data Center Deal, Ellison Becomes Richest
By
–
« OpenAI a signé un accord de 300 milliards de dollars avec Oracle pour des centres de données GPU. » – Larry Ellison a gagné 101 milliards de dollars en une seule journée
– désormais l’homme le plus riche du monde.
– mais Sam n’a pas 300 milliards et Larry n’a pas 300 milliards -

Complete GPU Buying Guide: 1x to 8x Builds and Budget Breakdown
By
–
Buy a GPU, the guide, launches tomorrow > 1x to 8x GPUs builds > $2k to $15k+ budgets > inference, training, cpu offloading > complete bill of materials, where to buy, and tradeoffs > PCIe math decoded > the hard-earned lessons from experience
-
Berkeley EECS launches graduate application assistance program
By
–
Are you applying to grad school this fall? The Equal Access to Application Assistance (EAAA) program for @Berkeley_EECS is now accepting applications! Any PhD applicant to @Berkeley_EECS can submit their application for feedback by Oct. 5th 11:59PM PST. EAAA is a
-
Buy a GPU and Learn How LLMs Work
By
–
back to our scheduled programming Buy a GPU and Learn How LLMs work
-
Clarification on Thinking Machines Corporation founding date 1983
By
–
To be clear, here the (first) Thinking Machines Corporation (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin…) I referred to was founded in 1983 🙂
→ View original post on X — @lilianweng, 2025-09-11 02:30 UTC
-
AI: A Practical Tool, Not Magic or Silver Bullet
By
–
AI is not magic. It's not a silver bullet, or a devil. It's a useful way to use computers for some things that previously they weren't so good at, and a lot of folks are interested in learning more about that.
-
Why RTX 3090 GPUs Remain Recommended for Most Users
By
–
Part of why I recommend 3090s usually to most folks
-
SF/LA Tech Week 2025: The Next Layer of Reasoning Event
By
–
The SF/LA Tech Week 2025 calendar is live!
We’re excited to host The Next Layer of Reasoning – Finding the Missing Piece with @AITinkerers and @techweek_ SoMa, San Francisco Thursday, Oct 9 · 6:00pm Sign up here: https://
partiful.com/e/Q8ZjdwkPxvq5
LBRyfyIx?accept-cohost=219afe61-a5d7-4457-bedf-e09318b3b6bb
… #SFTechWeek
