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Note to readers: This series of articles focuses on researchers whose work improves efficiency, addresses concerns, or offers alternative solutions to some of the pressing issues created by data centers.

With the ubiquity of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and xAI, it can be easy to think that the entire artificial ingelligence (AI) industry is made up of these large language models (LLMs). But AI predates many of these systems and is far more expansive than just LLMs, including machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, robotics, and more.

Even when it comes to language models themselves, the colossal, energy- and resource-i...