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AI: from the model to the power grid

How a language model really works, how much VRAM a home setup needs, how much power and cooling a data centre burns: the chain from algorithm to grid.

7 parts 30 min reading

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1. 01 ARTIFICIAL_INTEL✓ READ Matrix Code or Advanced Math? Does AI Really Think? Whenever AI comes up in movies, two extreme scenarios always spring to mind: either the witty, loyal robot TARS from Interstellar, or the cold Skynet of the Terminator universe that codes humanity as… 4 MIN READ
2. 02 ARTIFICIAL_INTEL✓ READ Probability, Not Mind: AI's Statistical Illusion of Thinking As an electrical-electronics engineer, when I look at circuit boards, microcontrollers or artificial neural networks, I don't see magic; I see mathematics, linear algebra and voltage levels. Yet tod… 5 MIN READ
3. 03 ARTIFICIAL_INTEL✓ READ Running a Local LLM: How Much VRAM Do You Really Need? Tired of paying a subscription fee every month for cloud-based AI services, or worrying that your company's sensitive data might leak onto the internet? With open-source AI models (… 4 MIN READ
4. 04 ARTIFICIAL_INTEL✓ READ NVIDIA's End-to-End AI: DRIVE Thor and Autonomous Driving Although driverless car technologies have been around for years, our dream of fully autonomous (Level 5) driving has never quite come true. The biggest reason was the software forming the vehicle's brain… 4 MIN READ
5. 05 HARDWARE✓ READ Beyond the Thermal Wall: Blackwell B200 and Liquid Cooling As an electrical and electronics engineer studying high-power semiconductor designs, you keep running into one unchanging law of nature: "Compute capacity depends not on the limits of silicon, but on the heat flux… 5 MIN READ
6. 06 ELECTRICAL_ENERGY✓ READ AI's Hidden Bill: Gigawatt Power Demand and Grid Limits When AI puts a flawless poem, working Python code or a photorealistic image on our screen in a few seconds, we usually forget what lies behind the magic. Yet behind every query and every training cy… 4 MIN READ
7. 07 ELECTRICAL_ENERGY✓ READ Powering AI Sustainably: Power Electronics and Liquid Cooling In popular science fiction films, futuristic supercomputers and AI cores are usually portrayed as silent, glowing crystal rooms that produce zero waste. In today's reality, however… 4 MIN READ

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