162 kW
replyI guess we know why there's a fair bit of investment money going into small modular nuclear reactor startups now.
replyAnd 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.
replyRemove energy from the ground. I wonder what the consequences may be once we are cooling the underground at several MW/h.
replyActually 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.
replyI 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?
replyGod, I was going to ask if this could be deployed in a standard existing datacenter, but I guess that answers that question.
replySo the answer is yes? Putting in a few of those racks for special tasks shouldn't break the power assumptions of a data center.
replyI presume per rack?
replyCan you imagine something radiating that much energy into a space in your home?
It's mandatory liquid cooling, so it's meant to be attached to a specialized liquid cooling loop that gets the heat outside the building.
replyThis is far beyond the practical maximums of like 10 to 15kW per 44U cabinet front to rear air cooling for 'regular' rackmount server stuff.
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…
replyMore realistically, you need much more cooling water.
I guess because I have actually set foot in a data center I don't imagine literally every product in my home.
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reply"10x more throughput per watt than CS-3"
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