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Lead story: ā” Anthropic demands a power surge
Anthropic estimates that the US will need to build 50 gigawatts of new power capacity by 2028 to meet the demand for AI. Thatās nearly twice New York Stateās peak summer load, or the output of 33 nuclear reactors. The warning comes as OpenAI and Oracle have just announced new Stargate AI data centers that will consume 4.5 gigawatts of power themselves. LeopoldāÆAschenbrenner, who wrote the Situational Awareness paper ināÆ2024, projected that the largest training cluster ināÆ2028 would be about 10āÆgigawatts. It probably wonāt reach quite that level, since most of the capacity will go to inference and training will be split among multiple providers and clusters. Nevertheless, these developments point to the emergence of some enormous clusters. [Anthropic, Tomās Hardware, Situational Awareness]