lessons to be learned: Bitcoin miners have already had to get creative about finding sources of energy and using it efficiently.
Bitcoin miners scramble to reach any spot with consistent, inexpensive power. AI operators will need more room than miners do, but they will still need to spread out more than they've been accustomed to."Beyond the hardware, the most important thing is actually having really good facilities that can withstand the heat, the cold and the dust of operating in remote environments," he said.
AI facilities, however, will probably be somewhere in the middle, density-wise, of those traditional data centers and bitcoin mining. That could be dense enough to try"There is great cooling technology out there, and they should not limit their ambitions based on the energy consumption of the system," Rochard said. "Bitcoin mining has really shifted the mindset on the feasibility of developing extremely energy-intensive data centers.