> Sizing a "municipal compute" utility for a town of 50,000 people works just like sizing municipal broadband: through oversubscription. Not all 50,000 residents are downloading a 4K movie or sending a prompt at the exact same millisecond. Assuming a ~40% adoption rate (20,000 active users) and a 1% to 2.5% peak concurrency rate (200 to 500 simultaneous active requests), a realistic, full-featured municipal installation is a 64- to 128-GPU cluster requiring 100 to 250 kW of power, 500 to 1,000 square feet of space, and 30 to 70 tons of cooling.
via Gemini Argon
That doesn't sound too bad. Roughly the amount of power needed for a supermarket. Does this seem right?
sudocarlos
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