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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Jowi Morales

Elon Musk’s Nvidia-powered Colossus supercomputer faces pollution allegations from under‐reported power generators

VoltaGrid Mobile Generators.

The Colossus Supercomputer may be a colossal problem for the world's richest man.

Last July Elon Musk fired up the Colossus, a supercomputer that uses 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs on a single fabric. The site could draw only 7 MW at its launch, however, enough to power just 4% of its GPUs. To solve this, Musk deployed several massive mobile generators to deliver the site’s electrical demands.

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