The Anxiety of Scaling Laws: Tracking B200 Data Centers Is Stressful

andersonbcdefg · x · 2026-08-02

An AI researcher expressed how stressful it must be to work at Epoch AI studying scaling laws.

They noted that knowing the sheer scale of the massive B200 data centers coming online in the next five years—and comprehending the terrifying expansion of compute power—would be overwhelming enough to make one physically ill every day.

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