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Power oversubscription

Provisioning more IT than the power can sustain at full draw, relying on workloads rarely peaking together.

Current numbers

~3% vs ~21%power oversubscription headroom: synchronous training vs inference (correlated vs uncorrelated peaks)as of 2024 · register ↗

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