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OWNING A $5M DATA CENTER

blog.comma.ai7 min read

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Comma.ai built its own $5M data center instead of using the cloud and estimates it saved $20M+ by doing it. Its 600 GPUs and 4PB of storage are cooled by big fans and San Diego air, all maintained by just a couple of engineers. The philosophy is that owning your compute forces better engineering.