Epoch AI launched its Frontier Data Centers Hub, mapping GW-scale AI facility construction using satellite imagery, while publishing an analysis of the OSWorld benchmark that found it relies on simple tasks and ambiguous instructions.

  • The hub tracks data center build-outs with annotated high-resolution imagery and reports on power usage and capital costs.
  • OSWorld review indicates tasks are simple, often under ten steps, and success hinges on interpreting ambiguous instructions rather than GUI interaction.
  • New Data Insights cover Microsoft’s Fairwater datacenter power consumption, campus sizes approaching one-fifth of Manhattan, and gigawatt-scale build times of two years or less.
  • Benchmarking updates show Gemini 3 Pro setting new records on FrontierMath (38% on Tiers 1–3) and GPQA Diamond (93%), while Claude 4.5 Opus scored 21% on FrontierMath Tiers 1–3.

The organization uses these insights to compare frontier models against those with significantly less training compute and to inform its 2026 research priorities.