And advanced geothermal. Fervo Energy let's us get energy that's not based on burning fossil fuels but is, instead, able to produce energy from the ground.
The core is obviously not in question here, but at scale and long term it could have an impact on the water bed, vegetation, underground ecosystems, soil stability, etc.
Actually that's mostly just the military funding those, with a few of them having data center partnerships so they can shield themselves from the criticism of what they really are: military contractors.
I heard a great deal of noise from early 2002 to the present date that the US military had a high interest in small portable nuclear reactors for large bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. And particularly around the peak period of troops on the ground in AF and IQ. And indeed a place like Bagram or Kandahar used a shitton of diesel to run generators. But nothing ever came to fruition to actually implement it, has something changed now that they actually consider it worth doing?
Distribution's always the problem - how much power actually gets delivered to each rack. 162 is ~an order of magnitude higher than normal, which means nothing in a standard data center is going to be built to deliver that kind of power to one rack.
Indeed. You need 45 to 60 liters per second of cooling water flowing over a Cerebras wafer every minute to keep it under 90C. And that’s assuming the water leaves at 90C…
More realistically, you need much more cooling water.
