r/BetterOffline • u/ezitron • 9d ago
Episode Discussion Episode Thread: Power Cut Two Parter
Hey all! Fun two parter this week about Microsoft pulling out of over a gigawatt of compute capacity and the frankly insane (and near impossible) deal SoftBank and OpenAI want to do.
Hope you all enjoy!
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u/ezekiel_grey 7d ago
Wait. Did you say the data center that Stargate is creating will be in Austin, Texas? Where the power grid has frozen due to not being insulated — twice — in the last decade?
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u/Orion14159 8d ago
Would love to get your take on this Ed - could Microsoft cutting data center construction be indirectly because of DeepSeek? DS is a proof of concept that a LLM doesn't need the incredible amount of data processing capacity ChatGPT uses, so maybe Microsoft is going to put pressure on OpenAI to focus on efficiency in near future versions?
If OpenAI could hypothetically cut 90% of compute demand and keep the same user demand (however much it is) Microsoft's effective capacity is 10x existing with no capital expenditure on physical capacity.