Comments on: The Gigabucks Going Into Datacenter Gigawatts https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/03/the-gigabucks-going-into-datacenter-gigawatts/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Wed, 12 Feb 2025 03:54:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/03/the-gigabucks-going-into-datacenter-gigawatts/#comment-248474 Tue, 11 Feb 2025 02:33:17 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145255#comment-248474 In reply to Charlie Wuischpard.

Agreed. I want Mr Fusion for everyone.

]]> By: Charlie Wuischpard https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/03/the-gigabucks-going-into-datacenter-gigawatts/#comment-248388 Sun, 09 Feb 2025 20:21:04 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145255#comment-248388 As usual , love the reporting and POV. Next perhaps is looking at how we deliver this generation capacity and move it thru the grid – if at all

]]> By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/03/the-gigabucks-going-into-datacenter-gigawatts/#comment-247807 Wed, 05 Feb 2025 20:01:03 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145255#comment-247807 In reply to Carl Schumacher.

That was my take when I wrote this story. It looked like a modern chiplet processor.

https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/05/the-datacenter-is-the-accelerator/

]]> By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/03/the-gigabucks-going-into-datacenter-gigawatts/#comment-247805 Wed, 05 Feb 2025 19:59:31 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145255#comment-247805 In reply to Mike Harris.

Could not agree more. Public heated pools and hot tubs. . . .

]]> By: Mike Harris https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/03/the-gigabucks-going-into-datacenter-gigawatts/#comment-247768 Wed, 05 Feb 2025 11:59:04 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145255#comment-247768 The picture at the top of the article is Meta’s $10B Richland Parish datacenter in Louisiana. This datacenter will consume 2 gigawatts. At 8 cents/kwatt-hour, which is the average industrial electricity price in the United States, the electricity to power this one datacenter is $1.4B per year. Microsoft’s Stargate datacenter will supposedly cost $100B, so imagine multiple sites with a total size about 10x bigger than what is in the picture at the top of the article and an even higher electricity bill.

It would be great if some use could be found for the waste heat produced by these datacenters. Aquaculture or some manufacturing facility could be co-located with the datacenter so that the waste heat can be put to productive use. In a cold area like Canada or a Nordic country, there could be condos on top of or surrounding the datacenter. The waste heat from the datacenter could be used to heat the condos, provide warm water and melt snow.

Instead of just optimizing the datacenter by itself, the bigger picture of local needs and resources (farm waste, livestock waste, …) should be examined so that a more holistic design can be made. For example, livestock waste can be use to grow cattails and cattails can be converted into ethanol using the waste heat from the datacenter. If the datacenter is built below ground in a basement, different types and sizes of facilities could be built above it and could change over time, as uses for the waste heat change. To get the datacenter online as quickly as possible, cooling towers could be put above the datacenter initially. The cooling towers could be swapped out as different uses for the waste heat are brought online.

]]> By: Carl Schumacher https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/03/the-gigabucks-going-into-datacenter-gigawatts/#comment-247718 Tue, 04 Feb 2025 21:12:38 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145255#comment-247718 I’m assuming that the pic at the top of the article represents the 2025 state-of-the-art data center BoPoD (Buildinglets on Pad on Dirt) packaging. And the buildinglets are perhaps at the current reticle limit.

It appears that the the center “IO” buildinglet is connected to the outer 4 “compute” buildinglets with thin (but probably hit bit rate) serial interfaces.

Obviously quite a few “capacitors” placed around the periphery of the package.

Interesting.

]]> By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/03/the-gigabucks-going-into-datacenter-gigawatts/#comment-247606 Tue, 04 Feb 2025 02:58:36 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145255#comment-247606 In reply to Carl Schumacher.

I do it at my house. I have a personal Mjollnir….

]]> By: Carl Schumacher https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/03/the-gigabucks-going-into-datacenter-gigawatts/#comment-247596 Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:13:40 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145255#comment-247596 Hmmm it would be interesting to know what Doc Brown would say if Marty fired up the Delorean / Flux capacitor to head back to 1955 from 2025 (instead of 1985), and told Doc that modern data centers needed 1.21 GigaWatts in order to function.

…Ah if only lightning could be convinced to fire 24×7 above a data center!

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