Half a megawatt saved, and viewers ask per what: Two Bit da Vinci's first Huawei video
Posted eleven days before Ricky flew to Shanghai to see Huawei's Peerium up close, the shorter Huawei explainer is now drawing about ten times its usual daily views.
Two Bit da VinciStory of Why this story? The video is running at 26,051 views a day, 9.8 times its usual pace (2,670).
Huawei's AI Breakthrough Saves Kilowatts of Power
Several technology channels close to Two Bit da Vinci's size are running well below their usual daily pace. Matt Wolfe and Microsoft Developer are among the quietest. Ricky's channel is going the other way, pulling in about 138,000 views a day against a usual figure near 82,000, and much of that lift comes from a video that is two weeks old.
"Huawei's AI Breakthrough Saves Kilowatts of Power" went up on September 22. It is the first of the channel's two Huawei videos, and the description sets out its argument plainly. In a big AI cluster, most of the energy goes into moving data between chips, not into the computing itself. At the speeds AI needs, a copper link only reaches about a meter. Huawei's answer is the Atlas 960E SuperPoD, which uses light to wire 4,096 chips together with a few thousand optical engines where a conventional build would need tens of thousands. The company says that saves more than half a megawatt in a single system.
The same company and the same UnifiedBus protocol came back on October 3, when Ricky flew to Shanghai to sit down with Huawei's researchers, as we reported here. Perhaps people who watched the longer trip went looking for the shorter version that came first.
Nothing new has been added to the comment section since yesterday. The most liked comment is still a fair question: is that half a megawatt a constant draw, or per day, or per year? (A kilowatt is a rate, so the saving holds for as long as the machine runs.) Other viewers ask what kind of chips sit inside, how much power a human brain uses by comparison, and whether lighter data centers could mean cheaper AI. A few doubt Huawei's claims.
The Huawei pair is the latest stop in a run of uploads about where the electricity goes: Microsoft's data center water use, a Texas startup renting out home batteries, and the troubles of rooftop solar in America.
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What viewers say
when you say 550 kilowatts do you mean as a constant draw or per day or per year ... or what?
@meesiphht2769See it on YouTubeAnd the human brain uses how much power?
@BadAimMkaySee it on YouTubeWe are literally building brains
@dwtimmonsSee it on YouTube
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- Channel
- Two Bit da Vinci
- Subscribers
- 814,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 669,726
- Channel views, pace per day
- 137,655 (on a normal day: 81,704)
- Video published
- September 22, 2026
- Video views so far
- 71,673 (14 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 26,051 (on a normal day: 2,670)
The numbers
The jump belongs to a two-week-old video, and it lifted the whole channel well above its usual daily pace.
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