As Usual, Video Drives the Intensity of Model Processing, as it does Networking

Lumen Technologies says announced data center projects represent an additional one billion square feet of incremental U.S. data center capacity added by 2030. 

source: Lumen Technologies 

And we might already predict that artificial intelligence operations, including generation of video, are one reason for the expansion. 

Consider the use of a large language model to create an AI video that is 10 seconds long, at 240 frames per second. That requires the generation of 2400 frames (images). 

Compared to the processing required to answer a text query, that 240 fps video takes 4286 times the processing.

Task	Frame Rate (FPS)	Frames (for 10s)	Estimated TFLOPs	Ratio vs. Text
Text Query	N/A	N/A	28	1x
Video Generation	30	300	15,000	~536x
Video Generation	60	600	30,000	~1,071x
Video Generation	120	1,200	60,000	~2,143x
Video Generation	240	2,400	120,000	~4,286x