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The Data Center Arms Race: Power, Cooling, and the Physical Frontier | The AI Times E042
The AI Times E042: why AI data centers are power plants with server racks, and how power, cooling and the grid decide where the AI boom can happen.
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Every AI model lives in a building somewhere, and that building decides what the model costs. In Episode 042 of The AI Times, we look at the data center arms race: why a modern data center is basically a power plant wrapped around server racks, how cooling and grid access shape where the AI boom can happen, and how today's frontier models line up.
Chapters
- 0:00 Intro
- 0:18 The next model first reasoned about
- 1:20 The family tree has three branches
- 2:59 Two levers, both at inference time
- 4:44 The newest release is the GPT-5.6
- 6:42 Outro
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