SeaJ@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoHere’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputerarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up1298arrow-down18
arrow-up1290arrow-down1external-linkHere’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputerarstechnica.comSeaJ@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square60fedilink
minus-squaremox@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up68arrow-down9·edit-27 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-up22·7 months agoPop up a solar farm and you are good to go, baby!
minus-squareCort@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·7 months agoYeah just need 10Mw+ of solar and like 40mwh of batteries to power it 24/7
minus-squarehiggsboson@dubvee.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoSo just the 10 million dollar solar farm? easy peasy
minus-squareCort@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoPlus the batteries, unless you only want to run the thing while the sun is up
minus-squareBlueÆther@no.lastname.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 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