AI/HPC

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What Is an AI Factory? Energy In, Tokens Out, and Who Actually Gets Paid

What the AI factory frame actually tells an operator about their own megawatts.

Ian Philpot
Ian Philpot
AI/HPC

Announcement: Introducing The AI Hardware Price Index

Hashrate Index is now tracking the asking price of 8-GPU NVIDIA HGX nodes.

Hashrate Index
Hashrate Index
AI/HPC

An AI GPU Just Responded to an ERCOT 4CP Signal for the First Time

Luxor Energy and Bentaus cut a live GPU's power draw to 25% in under 500 milliseconds with no disruption to inference workloads.

Hashrate Index
Hashrate Index
Energy
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Vera Rubin: What I'm Telling Operators Before They Buy

The Vera Rubin buy comes down to your facility and your speed to install, not the spec sheet.

Michael San Miguel
Michael San Miguel
AI/HPC
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NVIDIA Vera Rubin: Why the Rack Is the New GPU

NVIDIA Vera Rubin isn't just a faster GPU. It's a rack-scale reference architecture that changes what you buy.

Ian Philpot Michael San Miguel
AI/HPC
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Neocloud Unit Economics: What Bitcoin Miners Already Know About Running GPU-Only Clouds

Model neocloud economics yourself: the formula, the miner's edge, and a live calculator.

Ian Philpot
Ian Philpot
AI/HPC
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AI Data Center Reference Architecture Explained: Why Buying GPUs Isn't Enough

A GPU is a component. An AI data center is a system. Here's what connects them.

Ian Philpot Michael San Miguel
AI/HPC
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Pearl (PRL): Inside the AI-Compute Cryptocurrency Turning Matrix Math Into Mining

Pearl mines crypto with AI matrix math, not hashing. Inside proof-of-useful-work, the Together AI deal, and whether the rush lasts.

Ian Philpot
Ian Philpot
AI/HPC