Ex-Googler Interview: Data Centers and Power, Not GPUs, Are the Real AI Bottleneck

A viral interview with a former Google employee argues the real AI compute bottleneck lies in data centers and power rather than GPU supply. Elon Musk responded that power shortage is an oversimplification, noting that time is the core constraint as every step of rapidly standing up large-scale compute is hard; the notes also highlight open-source models rapidly closing the gap with frontier closed models.

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