Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire

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Monday, April 25, 2011

Really Remote Data

Really Remote Data

Far-flung data centers could use otherwise unharvestable renewable energy for computation.
Researchers at Cambridge University want to put data centers in places so remote they aren't on any power grid. Their models indicate that moving data-hungry computation to places such as scorching deserts, windswept peaks, and the middle of the Atlantic Ocean—all rich in sunlight and wind energy—could allow this otherwise unharvestable energy to do useful work.

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