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Colossus 2 site reveals Minihard beside Macroharder
A new photo shows Minihard beside Macrohard and Macroharder at Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 site, powered by 720 Tesla Megapack units.
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A new photograph offers the first clear view of Minihard alongside Macrohard and Macroharder, the buildings that make up Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 supercomputer site. The system’s power infrastructure now includes 720 Tesla Megapack units.
Six Tesla Megapack blocks support the site, with 120 units in each block. Construction is also continuing on a large warehouse to the right of the battery installations. At the far end of the site, along Tulane Road, another building is under construction.
Minihard’s hardware configuration
That building was initially believed to be an office. Musk later clarified that it is Minihard, a more compact and improved configuration using the same hardware planned for Macroharder: 220,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs and network cards capable of 800 Gbit/s.
The first phase, Macrohard, reportedly includes:
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- More than 330,000 GPUs
- Total performance of 4.4 trillion operations per second
- Power consumption exceeding 1 GW
- 558 Tesla Megapacks with a combined capacity of 2.3 GWh
- A reported cost of $545 million
Macrohard uses liquid cooling. The second phase, Macroharder, is set to add another 220,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs, further increasing the site’s computing capacity. The source does not provide a separate power figure or completion date for Minihard or Macroharder.
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