THE MIND BOGGLES:
What Are Data Centers Doing? A Mind-Boggling Amount of Math.: The calculations needed to train A.I. are nearly impossible to visualize — but we tried anyway. (Aatish Bhatia Oct. 15, 2026, NY Times)
How long it takes to do an octillion calculations with…
| An iPhone | 13 million years |
| A PlayStation 5 | 3 million years |
| A high-end gaming PC | 300,000 years |
| An Nvidia H100 chip | 64,000 years |
| 100,000 Nvidia H100 chips | 8 months |