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This is, to me, absolutely indistinguishable from an April fools' day joke.
You are not alone. How would they handle the dust and noise which comes so tightly with high performance servers?
network bandwidth is of course the biggest limiting factor. =/ Designing a data center with 1.5 mb/s upload between nodes would be.....not fun. Excited to see if they can make a business out of this. edit: also would suck that for half the year your data center gets turned off.
I think this is targeted to computation needs. But on their registration page, they ask whereas you have fibre > 100Mbits/s.
this is such a good idea, it works well in the summer too
A distributed version of this will take place in Denmark, once Apples new datacenter is online. We have a distributed heating network in denmark, where excess heat is "sent" to homes connected with "fjernvarme" translated "remote heat". This new datacenter will dump its heat into the existing heating network and will heat x homes in the neighborhod.
In theory, any heat generated without computation is a waste. I'm sure it's pretty tough to actually make that work at scale, so excited to see this!
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Physical intrusion detection can be defeated. All it takes is one person to open it up to document where the microswitches are, and a careful bit of work with some tin snips and you're in.
Yes all physical security can be defeated but you could make it exceptionally difficult to do. As an example, I used to work on financial terminals and sat across the isle from one of the security engineers. They actually embedded conductors in the case that created a known EM field when the case was closed. If you opened the case, it disturbed the field and erases the keys. If you drill a hole in the case, it distur…