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 iPhone13 million years
A PlayStation 53 million years
A high-end gaming PC300,000 years
An Nvidia H100 chip64,000 years
100,000 Nvidia H100 chips8 months