Nvidia Touts Energy Efficiency of Chips at Washington Summit (1)

Nvidia Corp., facing concerns about the electricity demands of artificial intelligence computing, touted the energy efficiency of its latest chips at a conference Tuesday in Washington.

The company’s Blackwell chips, which are beginning to roll out to customers this year, would need 3 gigawatts of power to develop OpenAI’s GPT-4 software, Nvidia said at an event called the AI Summit DC. Ten years ago, that process would have required 5,500 gigawatts, the chipmaker said.

“Our Blackwell platform is basically built with energy efficiency in mind,” Nvidia Vice President Bob Pette said at a briefing ahead of the event.