Sam Altman-Backed Exowatt Wants to Power AI Datacenters with Hot Rocks
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Exowatt, backed by Sam Altman, proposes using hot rocks to power AI datacenters, sparking discussion about the scalability and efficiency of such systems.
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bix6
about 2 months ago
I thought these systems relied on scale to be efficient?
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