Tesla reveals new details of an ambitious supercomputer project
Tesla will install its Dojo supercomputer worth more than $500 million in Buffalo, New York, USA.
Governor Katie Hochul said that a $500 million Dojo supercomputer to process millions of terabytes of data from Tesla electric vehicles will be built in Buffalo and used to improve the safety of the company’s self-driving cars.
According to Hochul’s office, Tesla made the decision to move the supercomputer to the state based on “New York’s reliable power supply, strong talent pool, and the availability of usable space for the project.”
At the same time, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the amount of investment would be much higher.
“The governor is right that it is a Dojo supercomputer, but $500 million is obviously a lot of money, but it is equivalent to only 10 thousand H100 systems from Nvidia. Tesla will spend more. … The stakes to be competitive in artificial intelligence are at least several billion dollars a year,” he said in a post on X (Twitter).
The Dojo project was first announced at Tesla’s AI event in 2021. The idea was that Dojo would be a supercomputer designed to help create a fully self-driving car. Tesla planned to use a supercomputer to process video data streams coming from its electric vehicles to train artificial intelligence. Last year, Musk said that Tesla plans to spend “more than $1 billion” on Dojo.
In addition, Musk called this project a “high-risk, high-return program” and announced the possible expansion and creation of Dojo 1.5, Dojo 2, Dojo 3, etc.
