Hyundai Launches IONIQ 5 Robotaxi Blitz While Elon Is Busy Doing Other Stuff
Hyundai is planning to bust the US robotaxi scene wide open with an assist from its popular IONIQ 5 EV, leaving Tesla behind in the dust.
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ChatGPT generated create a panoramic image of a spike labeled "AI Electricity Demand" drooping as if it were rubber
AI Electricity Demand Spike Already Drooping Due To Innovation
At present we’re in another wave of hysteria regarding data center energy demands, this time focused on concerns related to AI. It was all over Davos, for example. Many decarbonization folks, although not me, are deeply concerned about the electricity demands of the various large language models and generative AI … [continued]
Vultr Expands Footprint with New NVIDIA Cloud GPU Capacity Using Clean, Renewable, Hydropower in Sabey…
The first cloud computing company to expand its Cloud GPU infrastructure with one of the most efficient, clean-powered data centers in the US NVIDIA HGX H100 GPUs for AI training, AI inference, and HPC for enterprises and innovators Vultr and Sabey dedicated to powering AI innovation with a reduced carbon … [continued]
NVIDIA’s Autonomous Driving Tech Leadership a Feature at CES
Many companies published a press release or two today to kick off CES 2024, maybe even three or four. By my count, NVIDIA has published 14. Without a doubt, NVIDIA is a tech leader, and it displays that leadership in a variety of different ways for a variety of different … [continued]
New Tesla Model S has a touchscreen for passengers in the back of the car as well the middle. Image courtesy of Tesla.
Could Tesla’s New Supercomputer Make It An Even Better AI Play?
Reports this week said that Tesla unveiled a new artificial intelligence computing cluster, and some say the move could also make the automaker a strong AI play. The new $300 million supercomputer is expected to use Nvidia hardware, despite also pitting Tesla against the tech company in the stock market. A Tesla … [continued]
Nvidia & MediaTek Partner To Improve Connected Vehicles
It’s hard to not think of EVs and great infotainment systems with connected features as going hand-in-hand. But, there’s no physical reason that we must do this. EV conversions and some entry-level EVs show us that an EV can be just as dumb as any ICE vehicle and still be … [continued]
NVIDIA’s Thor Autonomy Chip — Could It Be Loki In Disguise?
The engineers over at NVIDIA claim to have harnessed the power of Thor. Actually, that I made up. Though, a large chunk of NVIDIA’s press release about its new autonomy chip codenamed Thor is just as arbitrary (or it was just written by a mischievous Loki to confuse us all). … [continued]
One of the Largest Climate-Tech Workforce Partnerships in US History, + More EV & Battery…
In good green economic news, electric battery maker SPARKZ and the United Mine Workers coal union have announced a labor-management memorandum of understanding for a planned factory in West Virginia that intends to put out-of-work coal miners back to work. More on new battery factories, jobs, recycling, electric vehicles, and … [continued]
No, Elon Musk Not Looking “Increasingly Isolated As Automakers Embrace Lidar”
Tesla is forging ahead its own way.
NREL Acquires Next-Generation High-Performance Computing System, Kestrel
Kestrel Will Take Flight and Bring the United States Closer to a Clean Energy Future
