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How Many Costcos Does It Take to Run the Internet?

How Many Costcos Does It Take to Run the Internet?

Introducing the CUPS Metric: Costco Units of Processing Space Just over a decade ago we described compute capability for the non-technical by how many iPhones strung together would equal a petaflop of supercomputing power. Today we make our noble comparisons to warehouse-scale bulk shopping meccas. But let’s actually talk

Your Datacenter Might Be the Grid’s Secret Weapon

Your Datacenter Might Be the Grid’s Secret Weapon

What if stabilizing the power grid wasn’t about adding capacity—but making what we already have smarter? There’s a quiet, almost subversive idea buried in a dense paper from the energy systems world: Datacenters—the very things being blamed for devouring the modern grid—might also be the

The AI Models Are Getting Smarter. Your Datacenter Probably Isn’t.

The AI Models Are Getting Smarter. Your Datacenter Probably Isn’t.

Why the next frontier in compute might leave your infrastructure behind In the beginning, there was brute force. You fed the GPUs data—any data, all data—and they ground it into insight with raw, burn-the-planet math. Bigger models meant bigger training runs meant bigger clusters. And the datacenter, that