SeaJ@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoHere’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputerarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up1301arrow-down18
arrow-up1293arrow-down1external-linkHere’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputerarstechnica.comSeaJ@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square68fedilink
minus-squaremox@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up69arrow-down9·edit-22 months ago Power consumption: 1.7 MW I hope it stays decommissioned. We’re burning up the planet too fast already, and old computers tend to be far less efficient than modern ones.
minus-squareSeaJ@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·2 months agoPop up a solar farm and you are good to go, baby!
minus-squareCort@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 months agoYeah just need 10Mw+ of solar and like 40mwh of batteries to power it 24/7
minus-squarehiggsboson@dubvee.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoSo just the 10 million dollar solar farm? easy peasy
minus-squareCort@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoPlus the batteries, unless you only want to run the thing while the sun is up
minus-squareBlueÆther@no.lastname.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoYeah, I saw the 4Mil BTU on another page, that’s a lot of heat output
I hope it stays decommissioned. We’re burning up the planet too fast already, and old computers tend to be far less efficient than modern ones.
Pop up a solar farm and you are good to go, baby!
Yeah just need 10Mw+ of solar and like 40mwh of batteries to power it 24/7
So just the 10 million dollar solar farm? easy peasy
Plus the batteries, unless you only want to run the thing while the sun is up
Yeah, I saw the 4Mil BTU on another page, that’s a lot of heat output