Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice

reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• justsomeguy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Are you trying to trick tech companies into being useful? That’ll upset them.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Someone tell Silicon Valley: They should put datacenters on trains so no one knows where they are. gonna need HSR for it to work properly tho.

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    • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      We’d have renewable-powered trains that have trackside turbines to recoup some of the wing generated by the train’s drag, and send also have the fastest WiFi the world has ever seen

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        One hundred kilobit per second is my final offer

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Making a data center profitable would be bad for the economy and the jobs

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• Tja@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Renewable efficiency is close to the theoretical limit. Solar cell have a limit just over 33% and current models have efficiency of around 25%.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Renewable efficiency is close to the theoretical limit.

    There’s still plenty of juice to squeeze in terms of cost to manufacturer, deploy, and maintain. This isn’t purely a question of cell efficiency.

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s cost, not efficiency…

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s Cost Efficiency, which is a vital calculation in any business enterprise.

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  • reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    if the component is at its limit, then you can come up with ways to use that component more efficiently. Also reducing the size of the whole thing also increases efficiency singe you can stuff more of them in same area

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Tha area is given by the suns light. The sun gives us around 1000w per m2. The theoretical limit is 330w converted to electrical power. Current panels achieve 250w.

      This is not a GPU, making things smaller doesn’t give you any gains.

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      • reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        wouldnt it be better to get 250w from smaller area than bigger?

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