Data Center Power Calculator
Move the sliders to see how much power an AI data center needs, and what that means in homes.
- Chips alone
- 70 MW
- Whole site
- 91 MW
- Energy per year
- 797 GWh
- Same as US homes
- 73,800
A rough estimate: it assumes the site runs flat out all year, and counts accelerators only, not the servers around them. Homes use the US average of about 10,800 kWh a year (EIA).
Fifty years of transistors
Transistors per chip. Bars use a log scale, so each equal step is ten times the last.
| Year | Chip | Transistors |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Intel 4004 | 2,300 |
| 1978 | Intel 8086 | 29,000 |
| 1993 | Intel Pentium | 3,100,000 |
| 2000 | Intel Pentium 4 | 42,000,000 |
| 2006 | Intel Core 2 Duo | 291,000,000 |
| 2020 | Apple M1 | 16,000,000,000 |
| 2022 | Nvidia H100 | 80,000,000,000 |
| 2024 | Nvidia B200 | 208,000,000,000 |