New Microsoft solution could save data centres millions in electricity spending

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Very cool.
Now if someone could please make the 24 year old technology that is 10Gbps ethernet actually affordable and common for home networking and UTP networked devices in general that would be nice.

If you told me in 2005 I'd still be running 1Gbps at home in 2026 I would have unfriended you on Facebook and poked your mother/sister.

DankieF*kInAdvance.
 
“The researchers expect that it will use about 50% less energy than mainstream laser-based optical cables, based on the team’s lab tests of the new system,” the company said.
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Still gonna cost an arm and a leg, and grab most of SA's power if they get to have their way.

Yay, we'll have top AI, but need to use it by candlelight :-/
 
Brian_G said:
Still gonna cost an arm and a leg, and grab most of SA's power if they get to have their way.

Yay, we'll have top AI, but need to use it by candlelight :-/
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Don't be so negative, you'll have a little solar panel hooked up to a knockoff Raspberry Pi or ESP32 bread board while connected via telnet to an irradiated and relatively unstable data center somewhere in what's left of the northern hemisphere.

You, and 384 other people will share the same Starlink connection before the final satellites deorbit, it'll still be illegal to use, of course.
Your avatar and username on mIRC will still be Brian_G. You will avoid the MyBB home page due to bandwidth constraints and always go directly to the forum link, or risk getting beaten up by the other Starlink users. Every single MyBB article will just be a stagnant 3+ year old WARNING article anyway.

The basket you use daily to collect fruit, roadkill and edible roots for your starving family in the surrounding area will be woven from fiber optic cables and will last a very, very long time as long as you don't leave it too close to your oil drum fire.

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The power draw of the optics is probably a single digit percentage of the total.
Zombie servers account for 25% extra usage.
Poor air flow management attributes to another 25%.
Another 25% if you are over cooling.
Imaging cables are probably on distance not much different to DAC cables which are cheaper.

Have no idea where there is saving as there are bigger fish to fry and other alternatives.
 
r00igev@@r said:
The power draw of the optics is probably a single digit percentage of the total.
Zombie servers account for 25% extra usage.
Poor air flow management attributes to another 25%.
Another 25% if you are over cooling.
Imaging cables are probably on distance not much different to DAC cables which are cheaper.

Have no idea where there is saving as there are bigger fish to fry and other alternatives.
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They do use so much power, so every bit they can save probably would save money.

The biggest cost is obvs migrating from GPUS to TPUS to eventually ASICS for AI inference. Once model performance flattens this will be the logical next step.
https://taalas.com/products/
They have a demo one, obviously running a small model. But still impressive performance.
https://chatjimmy.ai
 
RaptorSA said:
Very cool.
Now if someone could please make the 24 year old technology that is 10Gbps ethernet actually affordable and common for home networking and UTP networked devices in general that would be nice.

If you told me in 2005 I'd still be running 1Gbps at home in 2026 I would have unfriended you on Facebook and poked your mother/sister.

DankieF*kInAdvance.
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Do you have Internet connectivity to handle the 10gbps? You can do 2.5 if you wish
 
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