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How to power AI: smarter cooling and the future of energy | Cullen Bash

aired Aug 27, 2026
Signal
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Essential
confidence 0.99
Orig55.1
Actn75.0
Dens100.0
Dpth100.0
Clty80.9
Summary

CULLEN BASH Frontier was the first exascale system on the market, and when we push that to its very limit, it, consumes 30 MW of power. Fast-forward to today, three, four years later, 2025, the most capable AI supercomputer that was, commissioned consumes, 300 megawatts power.

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It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of energy, it's, think, including: And at that time in, there were other, AI infrastructure, AI supercomputers that were deployed at that time.

Key takeaways
  1. 01And at that time in, there were other, AI infrastructure, AI supercomputers that were deployed at that time
  2. 02And at that time in 2022, there were other, AI infrastructure, AI supercomputers that were deployed at that time
  3. 03And then th- those are the systems that we use to, to run models, But, you know, what are we gonna run on them?
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