What in the F is an AI factory?
I had to investigate what the unelected
@EU_Commission is talking about today
So according to them, it's some data centers (which they call supercomputers) in 6 different EU countries
I checked out the most powerful one: Karolina, a Czech data center, it mostly has CPUs though (see pic) not GPUs, so mostly useless for AI
The GPUs it does have are 72x 8x NVIDIA A100 GPU, so 576x A100, or equivalent of 240x H100s
(H100 is about 2.4x the compute power of A100)
So let's compare that:
@xAI has 200,000x H100 GPUs
So the xAI data center has 800x more compute than the Czech one
If we combine xAI, Meta, AWS, etc. it's about 750,000 H100s
If we assume the other 5 data centers in the EU are equivalent to the Czech one (which is massive stretch because most of the others seem AI consultacny services, they don't even HAVE chips!), the EU's new "AI factories" have a total of 1,440x H100 GPUs, let's round up to 1,500 to be nice
So the EU is trying to compete with 750,000 GPUs with their own 1,500 GPUs, so 500x less??
Correct me if I'm wrong but it's just seems very low impact and another ridiculous idea and burning of EU tax payers money that will end up in local cronies and bureaucrats and will do NOTHING to improve the AI business climate for Europe
The best way to improve it is to deregulate, make it super easy and low tax (especially when starting out) to start AI companies in Europe
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