From AI to Absorption: Office Demand, AI Talent Concentrations, and What it Means for Data Centers

Glossary of Key Terms

Term

Definition

Term

Definition

AI

Artificial Intelligence

KSF

Thousand Square Feet

An integrated circuit that is dedicated to training and executing neural networks

AI Chips

kWh

Kilowatt-hour

MSA

Metropolitan Statistical Area

A free large language model for large-scale public access created by AI researchers from HuggingFace, Microsoft, Nvidia, IDRIS/GENCI and PyTorch

Bloom

MSF

Million Square Feet

MWh

Megawatt-hour

CBD

Central Business District

Open Pre-Trained Transformer developed by Meta for natural language processing researchers

OPT

A measure of computational resources required for AI systems to perform tasks Synthetic media that’s been digitally manipulated to replace one person's likeness with that of another A 280 billion parameter large language model developed by Google subsidiary DeepMind Generative Pre-Trained Transformer 3; a large language model released by OpenAI in 2020

Compute

Power Usage Effectiveness: ratio measuring energy used by a data center to the energy delivered to computing equipment in the data center

Deepfake

PUE

Gopher

TIMs

Tenants in the Market

GPT-3

Companies involved in vertical applications, horizontal platforms, autonomous machines or AI & ML semiconductors, as rated by Pitchbook.

AI Company

GPU

Graphics Processing Unit

YTD

Year-to-date

IT

Information Technology

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