Such a supercomputer naturally has a large power draw. Dojo requires so much power that it managed to trip the grid in Palo Alto.
“Earlier this year, we started load testing our power and cooling infrastructure. We were able to push it over 2 MW before we tripped our substation and got a call from the city,” said Bill Chang, Tesla’s Principal System Engineer for Dojo.
In order to function, Tesla had to build custom infrastructure for Dojo with its own high-powered cooling and power system....
Seven ExaPODs are currently planned to be housed in Palo Alto.
Dojo is purpose-built for AI and will greatly improve Tesla’s ability to train neural nets using video data from its vehicles. These neural nets will be critical for Tesla’s self-driving efforts and its humanoid robot ‘Optimus’, which also made an appearance during this year’s event.
Tesla AI Day 2022Optimus
Optimus was also first unveiled last year and was even more in its infancy than Dojo. In fact, all it was at the time was a person in a spandex suit and some PowerPoint slides.
While it’s clear that Optimus still has a long way to go before it can do the shopping and carry out dangerous manual labor tasks, as Tesla envisions, we at least saw a working prototype of the robot at AI Day 2022.
Elon Musk opening remarks 14:00 Introducing Optimus 17:00
Mass produced (millions of units) the Optimus Robot is projected to cost less than $20,000. (Maintenance service and repairs, who knows?) 25:00 Elon Musk appeals to the most talented people to join and help Tesla to refine Optimus and bring its potential to fruition and help people "... the potential really boggles the mind...at a point where there's not a limitation on capita...an economy becomes quasi-infinite, so taken to fruition, hopefully in the benign scenario, this means a future of abundance, a future where there is no poverty, where people, you can have whatever you want, in terms of products and services. It really is a fundamental transformation of civilization as we know it, obviously we want to make sure that transformation is a positive one and um...safe...
...[Optimus being owned by the public is very important] It's important that the corporate entity that makes this happen is something that the public can properly influence...
But we need to do this in the right way, we need to do it carefully and safely, and ensure that the outcome is one that is beneficial to civilization and one that humanity wants...
...and I hope you will consider joining Tesla to achieve those goals. At Tesla we really care about doing the right thing here or aspire to do the right thing and not pave the road to hell with good intentions..."