The Minutes of Dylan Patel on power efficiency https://minutesof.com/dylan-patel/on/power-efficiency/ Everything Dylan Patel has said on power efficiency: 3 verbatim quotes from October 2025, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it came from. en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:22:19 +0000 Patel quantifies that 20% performance per watt advantage translates to only 4% TCO difference on NVIDIA deploy https://minutesof.com/q/da576a59-1c4e-476c-b4e2-3b883d9367fb/ https://minutesof.com/q/da576a59-1c4e-476c-b4e2-3b883d9367fb/ “But capital is far more of a limiting factor. Because if you have enough power, a 20% difference in performance per watt only ends up being a 4% difference in TCO.” — Open Compute Project Thu, 23 Oct 2025 06:01:45 +0000 power efficiency Patel calculates 20% power efficiency difference translates to only 4% TCO difference on NVIDIA deployments. https://minutesof.com/q/e54db0c9-c69e-4b1e-a270-5018b18ad51e/ https://minutesof.com/q/e54db0c9-c69e-4b1e-a270-5018b18ad51e/ “Because if you have enough power, a 20% difference in performance per watt only ends up being a 4% difference in TCO.” — Open Compute Project Thu, 23 Oct 2025 06:01:45 +0000 power efficiency Patel calculates that without Supermicro's liquid cooling solution, servers would consume 30% more power. https://minutesof.com/q/10a69170-989c-42e0-9bd5-da11329eee97/ https://minutesof.com/q/10a69170-989c-42e0-9bd5-da11329eee97/ “So that's why Shibbol Micro dedicated deep cooling so aggressively. And if the liquid cooling solution from Super Micro didn't exist, then those servers would be consuming 30% more power.” — Supermicro Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:00:47 +0000 power efficiency