Subj : Re: New Pico2
To   : The Natural Philosopher
From : Andy Burns
Date : Sat Aug 24 2024 14:37:43

XPost: sci.electronics.design

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> the race to more MIPS is likely to drive adoption of
> nuclear power

In the USA, Big Data is either buying-up the full output of nuclear
plants, or buying the nuclear plants themselves.

> I don't see data centres 'throttling back' servers after sunset, or on
> calm days...

Throttling in tune with renewable generation, maybe not, but "herding"
multiple virtual servers onto a reduced number of physical hosts in tune
with demand and shutting down some of the physical hosts is done.

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