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posted an update 5 days ago
What the Cloud Actually Drinks from "AI’s Water Problem Is Smaller Than You Think" on @hackernoon https://hackernoon.com/ais-water-problem-is-smaller-than-you-think For years, the environmental conversation about computing was about carbon. Water was an afterthought, buried in sustainability reports under "operational metrics." That was a mistake, because the physics were never subtle. Here's how a conventional data center stays alive. Heat from the chips is carried out of the server hall by a closed loop of coolant, which dumps it into a second, open loop — the cooling tower — where water is sprayed into moving air and deliberately allowed to evaporate. It's a spectacularly efficient way to move heat, the same trick your body uses when it sweats. It is also, by definition, consumptive: that water doesn't go back to the river. It goes into the sky. Depending on climate and tuning, this costs between 1 and 9 liters of water per kilowatt-hour of server energy.
posted an update about 1 month ago
Say it with me, AI is moving beyond the phone, AI is moving beyond the phone, AI is moving beyond the phone. The weight Apple is putting on this says it all. They're fighting for the next hardware market before it hits the market. Harder to say what it means for OpenAI's consumer trust. Re https://huggingface.co/apple vs. https://huggingface.co/openai: https://hackernoon.com/apple-v-openai-trade-secrets-lawsuit-the-42-most-explosive-allegations-and-the-internets-reactions
posted an update about 1 month ago
For forty years, the secret language that lets software talk to hardware was owned by a handful of companies. Then a free alternative escaped the lab and turned chip design into a matter of statecraft. There is a sentence that security researchers, hardware startups, and the governments of at least three continents have all, in their own way, come to believe: you can put a company on a blacklist, but you cannot put a language on one. That single insight is quietly rewiring the most concentrated industry on Earth. For more than four decades, the foundational vocabulary of computing — the instruction set architecture, or ISA, that determines how a piece of software actually speaks to the silicon beneath it — has been guarded like a crown jewel. In PCs, laptops, and servers, the proprietary x86 architecture built by Intel and AMD has reigned almost unchallenged. In phones and embedded gadgets, the British-born ARM architecture has been nearly as dominant. If you wanted to design your own processor, you paid millions in licensing fees, signed thick stacks of non-disclosure agreements, and accepted black-box silicon you could neither fully audit for hidden flaws nor bend to an unusual purpose. That world is ending. Driven by the spread of open standards, the maturing of free chip-design software, and a global anxiety about who controls the supply chain, open-source silicon has vaulted from an academic daydream into a commercial reality. Processors designed collaboratively, in the open, are now booting Linux, shipping inside consumer laptops, rendering 3D graphics, and locking down the firmware in enterprise data centers. This is the story of how that happened — and of why a royalty-free dictionary for talking to a chip became one of the most contested objects in twenty-first-century geopolitics. Read Full: "The Open Chip Revolution Has Reached the Real World" https://hackernoon.com/the-open-chip-revolution-has-reached-the-real-world
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