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jonpaul:
optical connectors relying on an air gap may have de focusing with oil.

Some . fibre connections need a specified oil contact.

Wonder if the issues mentioned with oil immersed computer can be solved,with gas,cooling eg use of,hélium ?

Largest utility generators,are even hydrogen cooled.Con Edison Ravenswood station has " Big Allis" install 1965, 981 Mwattt-~ 1 GW !

now we're talkin power!

Jon

Gyro:
This is the sort of thing that should be happening much more...


--- Quote ---Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool

The heat generated by a washing-machine-sized data centre is being used to heat a Devon public swimming pool.

The computers inside the white box are surrounded by oil to capture the heat - enough to heat the pool to about 30C 60% of the time, saving Exmouth Leisure Centre thousands of pounds.

The data centre is provided to the council-run centre free of charge.

Start-up Deep Green charges clients to use its computing power for artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Founder Mark Bjornsgaard said the company would also refund the leisure centre's electricity costs for running the "digital boiler" - and seven other England pools had signed up to the scheme.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64939558

james_s:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 19, 2023, 12:30:46 am ---Beyond what Jon said - indeed a gigantic fraction of the computing energy used worldwide is for spam, shit content, fraud and corruption - a relevant study should compare the overall cost of maintaining cryptocurrencies with the cost of maintaining regular currencies, which is done differently, but also has a gigantic direct, but mostly indirect cost. How much do you think is the cost of "forcing" trust in currencies that would probably have long collapsed otherwise?

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I think everyone not directly benefiting from it would love to see spam outlawed and shut down. I fully support shutting down spam and crypto, they're both a complete waste of energy and neither will ever be truly useful outside of criminal enterprise and scammy stuff.

jonpaul:
thinking of the energy wasted in creating, stories and serving

Videos
Games
Grambling
Pornographie
so,called "Crypto Currency"


Jon

I bet it's,a,huge fraction of total energy use...

abeyer:

--- Quote from: jonpaul on March 19, 2023, 07:59:10 pm ---Largest utility generators,are even hydrogen cooled.

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Let's just not let OVH try that!  :-DD

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