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NVIDIA's H100 consumes a staggering amount of energy, and balancing AI chip computing power and energy consumption has become an important issue.

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Update time : 2024-01-03 10:43:24
        With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, the demand for computing power is also rising. Nvidia's H100 is currently a hot seller, but each H100 consumes 700 watts of peak power. With large numbers of H100s deployed, experts predict its total power consumption will be comparable to that of a major American city, even more than some small European countries.
 
 
        At a 61% annual utilization rate, each H100 is predicted to consume about 3,740kWh per year. If NVIDIA sells 1.5 million H100s in 2023 and 2 million in 2024, by the end of 2024 there will be 3.5 million H100 chips deployed. The total annual power consumption of these chips would be a staggering 13.091 billion kilowatt-hours, or 13,091.82 GWh. By comparison, countries like Georgia, Lithuania, or Guatemala also consume an average of about 13,092 GWh of electricity per year.
        While the H100's power consumption is alarming, it's worth noting that AI and HPC GPUs are becoming more efficient. So while NVIDIA's next-generation B100 chip with the Blackwell architecture may consume more power than the H100, it will also offer higher performance, resulting in more work being done with less power per unit.
        Obviously, with the development of AI technology, how to balance the contradiction between arithmetic power and energy consumption will become an important topic that needs to be resolved in the future.
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