AI’s Energy Addiction: Can the GPU Revolution Be Made Sustainable?
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that the company has run out of GPUs, forcing a staggered rollout of its latest AI model, GPT-4.5. Despite its high cost of $75 per million tokens, the model remains resource-intensive, with OpenAI planning to add tens of thousands of GPUs to meet demand.
Victor Tangermann writes for Futurism
There's a good reason for that: the new model is so resource intensive that Altman claimed in a recent tweet the company has run 'out of GPUs' — the graphics processing units that are conventionally used to power AI models — forcing OpenAI to stagger its rollout.
The shortage highlights the AI industry's race to secure hardware, as companies pour billions into data centers to support increasingly complex models.