My understanding previously was that it was power/electricity issue (at least in the states). Hence why ppl in the countryside are disillusioned with the big tech since power is diverted to data centers to feed GPUs and cooling systems and they are either having power outages or their bills are going up (or both). Is that true though?
You also need real estate - you can't just build a data center anywhere. Ignoring the cooling issue for a second, it could be the reason why Google, SpaceX and others are considering orbiting data centers.
What's your take? Does anyone have more info? Is it actual GPU/silicon scarcity or power limitations or something else?
ethigent•44m ago
That said all of this primarily rolls up into token usage and AI. Since use of AI resources is based on token usage, each element can also be sliced and diced down to the token cost. A very fair metric frankly, but contributing to compute scarcity as an overall concept.