Can models affect data centre power usage?

6 August 2026 - NatWest Accelerator (Cardiff) - talk

Edward Grundy , Bay Information Systems

The inaugural AI Wales Tech talk looked at per-request power, VRAM and timing data for 50+ open-weight models across 21k prompts, the kind of telemetry that is normally only visible to data centre operators and frontier labs.

The dataset and notebooks are open on GitHub for anyone to explore, extend or challenge via a pull request.