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by lm28469 129 days ago
> Look at the construction of JWST.

A very high end desktop pulls more electricity than the whole JWST... Which is about the same as a hair dryer.

Now you need about 50x more for a rack and hundreds/thousands racks for a meaningful cluster. Shaded or not it's a shit load of radiators

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-azure-deliv...

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