Yacine: Someone walking past you could be running a gigawatt-scale training job from their phone
yacineMTB · x · 2026-11-06
yacineMTB quips that someone walking among us could be operating a datacenter-scale training job from their phone, burning "multiple lakes per second" measured in gigawatts — a hyperbolic take on how concentrated and invisible frontier AI compute has become. It resonated as a wry observation on the scale gap between ordinary users and frontier training runs.
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