We Turned Up the Power. The Fish Became GPUs.
Today’s news poses the question: where does an ‘AI data center’ actually end? The answer, it turns out, is ‘design power’: whether a facility is a data center or just a building comes down to how much electricity you design into it. We ran that exact experiment on our ocean floor. Turn the watts all the way up and… the fish start walking around as servers.
Source: 어디까지 ‘AI 데이터센터’인가…설계 전력에 달렸다 · bespin
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What this means for ThakiCloud
If you have the energy to argue about what a data center is, that argument is Metis’s to reason out and Paxis’s to run as agents. The real question is who holds the watts. Whether the fish end up as GPUs or servers, the tank is on our ocean floor. The current is ours, and there’s no landlord. An AI running on-prem doesn’t need the label ‘data center’: it was ours to begin with.
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