The token factory, floor by floor
Turn the tower, pick a floor, watch DC Sim run it: power and cooling, build and delivery, the GPU cloud, the token line, routing and context. Every number on screen comes from the engine, on an imagined 5 GW AI factory.
Drag to turn · click a floor to play it
One floor each, about 90 seconds
1:50Power & cooling
A grid outage, the worst case with no generator, and a chiller trip, played out on one hall of the imagined 5 GW AI factory and counted in tokens.
1:45Build & delivery
The floor plan as the design, live design checks, Excel import, cable checks and the failure tests to run before handover.
1:29GPU cloud
Utilisation is the product: Monitor KPIs, the top token producers, the network from edge to leaf, and a spine switch failure.
1:31Token line
Tokens per second and per kWh, rack by rack; +25 % peak load; and a leak priced in lost tokens.
1:35Routing & context
Routing across providers and sites, sites chosen by energy, a trunk cut and the loss of a whole 5 GW campus.
Explainers
3:49The 5 biggest cloud estates, mapped across continents
Five cloud networks ranked by each provider's own region count, flown on DC Sim's earth, with one ocean or continental link cut in each.
4:16The 5 craziest data centers: inside mountains, under the sea, on the Moon and in orbit
Mountains, seabeds, the Moon and orbit, and how each compares with DC Sim's imagined 5 GW AI factory.
DC Sim figures in these videos come from imagined designs and the engine's estimates, not from any real site. 3D factory scenes are concept illustrations; earth imagery: NASA.