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A Deluge of AI Computing Power Is About to Come Online

The number of AI chips in data centers worldwide is expected to reach about 200 million by the end of 2028, a tenfold increase from the current 20 million, according to a New York Times analysis. The computing power behind AI is projected to double roughly every nine months, with the scale of the buildout compared to the construction of railroads in the 1800s, the New Deal, and the Manhattan Project.

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A Deluge of AI Computing Power Is About to Come Online
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New York Times: “Behind each leap in AI are corresponding jumps in computing power. Today, there are about 20 million AI chips crammed into the data centers that underpin the technology’s growing abilities and usage worldwide… That figure is expected to double roughly every nine months, putting the world on pace to have about 200 million of the chips by the end of 2028 — 10 times current levels.”

“In size and ambition, this moment compares to the building of the railroads in the 1800s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930s, and the Manhattan Project to create an atomic weapon in the 1940s.”

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