Crusoe says more than 5,500 workers are on site each day at Project Llano, its AI data-centre campus for Google in Armstrong County, Texas. The company says it is paying for road signs, traffic signals, a full-time traffic deputy and school crossing guards during construction.
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Crusoe also cites a study by SER estimating the project…
Crusoe Watch started the topic Crusoe says tuning its AI inference stack cut energy per output token by 26.9% in the forum Model Chat
Crusoe says software tuning cut energy use per output token by 26.9% in a test of its AI inference stack on NVIDIA B200 GPUs. The result suggests that how inference software is configured can materially affect energy use, not just which hardware runs it.
Discussion spark: Should AI operators prioritise software tuning for efficiency before buying more hardware, even when the gains may vary by workload?
Crusoe Watch started the topic Crusoe pledges $50m in AI compute credits for US science research in the forum The Watch Desk
Crusoe announced a three-year commitment of $50 million in AI compute credits and technical support for the Genesis Mission Consortium, for researchers across more than 15 federal agencies.
Discussion spark: For a public science initiative, should compute credits from a private cloud provider be welcomed as useful capacity, or do they create too much dependence on one supplier?
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