Tesla's Texas Gigafactory Expands for AI with Supermicro's Technology
TapTechNews July 6th news, Tesla's Texas Gigafactory is being expanded to accommodate a supercomputer cluster for AI. Liang Jianhou, the CEO of Supermicro, posted on X to congratulate Elon Musk, saying that its large-scale AI data center adopts Supermicro's liquid cooling technology, which helps to protect 20 billion trees on the earth.
As we all know, AI data centers often mean huge energy consumption. Supermicro hopes to reduce this pressure by promoting its liquid cooling technology. According to the introduction, compared with air cooling, this liquid cooling solution can reduce the electricity cost of the heat dissipation infrastructure by 89%.
Liang Jianhou said that Supermicro's goal is to increase the adoption rate of liquid cooling heat dissipation solutions from less than 1% to more than 30% within one year. He estimates that the liquid cooling solution can save $20 billion (TapTechNews note: about 145.643 billion yuan currently) in energy costs for data centers every year.
Elon Musk is massively expanding the AI facilities of his Tesla Texas Gigafactory and has even specially built a super-large fan. The newly-expanded part can accommodate 50,000 Nvidia GPUs and more Tesla self-developed AI hardware, aiming to train the Tesla FSD system.
Elon Musk estimates that this supercomputer cluster can consume 130 megawatts of electricity per year and is expected to increase to more than 500 megawatts after 18 months. Elon Musk claims that the construction of this facility is nearing completion and is planned to be put into use in the next few months.
It should be noted that Elon Musk actually not only built this AI supercomputer cluster in the Tesla Gigafactory, but also built a supercomputer cluster worth billions of dollars for xAI.
Strictly speaking, the xAI supercomputer cluster is more famous than this one of Tesla. Elon Musk has previously confirmed the purchase of 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, and xAI will use this to train its Grok model.
According to Elon Musk, the xAI supercomputer cluster is expected to be completed in a few months, and also adopts Supermicro's liquid cooling system, and plans to upgrade to 300,000 Nvidia B200 GPUs next summer, that is to say, the priority of xAI is higher than that of Tesla, so Elon Musk asked Nvidia in June to ship thousands of GPUs originally supplied to Tesla to xAI, which also indirectly led to the delay of the Tesla supercomputer cluster for several months.