Could space-based data centers be the answer to Earth's energy and cooling challenges? NVIDIA's H100 GPU is leading the charge in orbit.

Could space-based data centers be the answer to Earth’s energy and cooling challenges? NVIDIA’s H100 GPU is leading the charge in orbit.

  • flango@lemmy.eco.brOPEnglish
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    1 day ago

    According to the International Energy Agency, the world’s data-crunching infrastructure is set to consume as much electricity by 2030 as the entire nation of Japan. Data centers also require enormous amounts of water for cooling—each day, a single 1-megawatt data center consumes as much water as about 1,000 people living in the developed world, World Economic Forum data suggests.

    Also, goodbye stars, only datacenters and space junk now.

    • PiraHxCx@lemmy.mlEnglish
      41·
      1 day ago

      The map of space debris looks scary because each is displayed as the size of a country, while all together they would fit inside a single stadium.