How often a campus’s hardware is replaced, in the four futures: every three years for the strategic engine, four for the rationed utility, five and a half for commodity infrastructure (Meta’s own accounting life for its servers, used as a proxy), and never for the distressed asset. Chapter 14.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
The book uses this term in a sense of its own.
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 14 — The Convergence
One campus, Meta’s Hyperion, run through four possible futures to show how science, power, money and permission meet in the price of an accelerator-hour.
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Refresh life.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/refresh-life (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-refresh-life-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Refresh life}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/refresh-life},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}