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I don't see how they are. They wrote total power including cooling over and over.

This is false. The phrase "including cooling" occurs nowhere in the article.

The word "cooling" alone appears seven times, none of them in the context of specific power numbers.

> The cooling overhead required to operate superconducting computers becomes less significant at higher than tens of petaflops. There, superconducting AI boards become more energy efficient than state-of-the-art GPUs.

Pretty clear to me.

> What’s more, the system promises to consume only 500 kilowatts of total power.

Also quite clear.

> The word "cooling" alone appears seven times, none of them in the context of specific power numbers.

Exactly like I said.

Additionally, nowhere is it said that "the system" includes the cryocooler. Since IMEC doesn't make cryocoolers, it would be unreasonable to assume that their "system" includes one.

This quantum stuff is starting to get even more scammy than cryptocurrency.

What "quantum stuff"? This isn't a quantum computer.

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