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Meanwhile, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai announced the upcoming release of the 7th generation TPU, Ironwood, promising significant performance gains—10 times faster than TPU V5P and quadruple efficiency improvements—aimed at enhancing Google’s AI models and making them accessible to cloud customers.
Several data centers are slated to demand 1 gigawatt of power in early 2024, with some, like Anthropic and XAI, building some of the most powerful AI infrastructure globally. Elon pointed out that XAI’s Colossus 2 will be completed in about 13 months, far ahead of Microsoft’s larger, more delayed projects, reinforcing the competitive edge of XAI.