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Roon charts long-term growth in global compute

The author reads the chart as a long-running exponential trend without a visible discontinuity at the arrival of AI.

development2026-10-05compute

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The newsletter cites Roon’s chart showing global compute rising from 0.17 zettaFLOP/s in 2008 to roughly 85 at the time of reporting.

Reported metric: 0.17 zettaFLOP/s in 2008; roughly 85 today

Reporting date: 2026-10-05 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to October 5, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
Source linked by the October 5 issue (x.com)

Indexed from Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross’s October 5, 2026 newsletter. Linked-source claims have not been independently verified.

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Roon charts long-term growth in global compute
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-10-05
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-10-05-world-compute
Claim: The newsletter cites Roon’s chart showing global compute rising from 0.17 zettaFLOP/s in 2008 to roughly 85 at the time of reporting.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to October 5, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-october-5-2026
- Source linked by the October 5 issue — https://x.com/tszzl/status/2106450637651333159
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