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# Billy Dally

## Profile

Chief Scientist at Nvidia, focused on hardware architecture for AI workloads.

## Role in the Source

Cited by [[entity-nate-b-jones]] for the data point that **inference now accounts for 90% of data center power consumption**, with the industry trending toward 10,000-20,000 tokens/sec per user. See [[claim-inference-power]].

## Canonical Reference

- https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/executive-leadership/bill-dally/

## Related

- [[claim-inference-power]]
- [[concept-agentic-economy-d20]]