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Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer(arstechnica.com)

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mox@lemmy.sdf.org
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Power consumption: 1.7 MW

I hope it stays decommissioned. We’re burning up the planet too fast already, and old computers tend to be far less efficient than modern ones.

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SeaJ@lemm.eeOP
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Pop up a solar farm and you are good to go, baby!

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Cort@lemmy.world
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Yeah just need 10Mw+ of solar and like 40mwh of batteries to power it 24/7

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higgsboson@dubvee.org
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So just the 10 million dollar solar farm? easy peasy

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BlueÆther@no.lastname.nz
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Yeah, I saw the 4Mil BTU on another page, that’s a lot of heat output

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