Fitting 120,000 NVIDIA B300 GPUs in Tour Montparnasse: a 304MW thought experiment
IgorCarron · x · 2026-10-04
A back-of-envelope thought experiment imagines fitting 120,000 NVIDIA B300 GPUs inside Paris' Tour Montparnasse, drawing roughly 304MW of power — a vivid illustration of the sheer scale of frontier AI compute clusters.
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