Wait. What. 1GW IDC for Zhipu alone?! This is ahead of my timeline. This is safely enough to build a "mythos" assuming some workable (even H800-level) chips. But what does it mean "partially operating"? Do they have a million chips colocated or not?!
Crazy stuff…
My guess is that it's mostly empty. As I've said before, they'll have "datacenters" completed in advance. China is really good at power and construction, some say too good, "overcapacity" or whatever. Chips start flowing in August, if they haven't yet.…
Germons could probably just ship their chips to China under some compute-sharing license and get more FLOPs for cheaper and faster. Shangdi knows there won't be "environmental" power caps or construction delays in Ulanqab.
(yeah, impossible)…
@zephyr_z9 Is there really any point beyond some logistical tradeoffs to build a 1M chip hub for inference alone instead of 10-100 small clusters
Land isn't as troublesome in Chyna and I guess grid/cooling issues might get worse at this scale
dumbass mfs talking pretentiously like they're so deeply inspired by scifi
this is literally a plot line from one of the most famous scifi books ever
you're supposed to try and understand the words when you read them