InfrastructureSeptember 15, 2026Impact
Gigawatt-scale training clusters come online
Several labs and cloud providers brought training campuses of a gigawatt or more online this quarter, each housing hundreds of thousands of accelerators.
Why it matters
Compute is the raw input for the next generation of models. These sites set the scale of training runs expected in 2027.
The details
- Power, not chips, is now the main constraint on new data centres.
- Expect announcements of models trained on these clusters through 2027.
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