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Earth passes 15 million H100-equivalents

development2026-01-09

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Epoch AI estimated humanity's total AI compute has passed 15 million H100-equivalents, putting Earth's AI processing density at 10^-14 MIPS per milligram.

Reported metric: 15M H100e

Reporting date: 2026-01-09 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to January 9, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

A planetary quantity, stated as a density — the framing the newsletter uses to point at the Solar System as the next denominator.

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Earth passes 15 million H100-equivalents
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Reporting date: 2026-01-09
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-01-09-15m-h100-equivalents
Claim: Epoch AI estimated humanity's total AI compute has passed 15 million H100-equivalents, putting Earth's AI processing density at 10^-14 MIPS per milligram.
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- Welcome to January 9, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-january-9-2026
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