Epoch AI
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Investigating the trajectory of AI for the benefit of society.
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Servers account for 60% of the total cost of owning a 1 GW AI data center.
A typical 1 GW AI data center costs about $38B in up-front capital and $0.9B/year to operate. Annualizing the capital expenses over equipment lifespans, that equates to $8.5B/year, with $5B for servers.
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Big differences in AI researcher pay don't have to be due to big differences in researcher quality. That's because tiny quality differences can lead to huge differences in outcomes.
Superstar AI researchers are paid >10× more than their frontier lab colleagues, and >100× more than most postdocs. Why?
The naive explanation is that this is just due to differences in researcher quality. But in a new essay, @ansonwhho argues that this is very incomplete.
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