NZ within a cow fart of cloud computing supremacy
The stars seem to be aligning for New Zealand's future.Exhibit A:New research from HP reveals that the biogas generated by 10,000 cows could provide enough energy to power 1000 servers.
The stars seem to be aligning for New Zealand's future.Exhibit A:New research from HP reveals that the biogas generated by 10,000 cows could provide enough energy to power 1000 servers.
The stars seem to be aligning for New Zealand’s future.
Exhibit A:
New research from HP reveals that the biogas generated by 10,000 cows could provide enough energy to power 1000 servers.
Exhibit B:
Fonterra is marshalling an army of 20,000 organic cows, which NBR’s science unit is guessing would lay down some very pure manure.
But A+B together, and you have a whole definition of server farm.
Now the, super-massive data centres that power the likes of Google and Microsoft’s cloud computing platforms tend to have around 25,000 servers each, meaning 250,000 cows would have to be deployed.
But then again, New Zealand has a bovine population of about four million. Agri-computing, here we come.
HP says although its plans remain hypothetical, it has received two serious inquires following a presentation to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
And a Computerworld.com report notes drolly: "there are some practical problems, not the least of which is connecting a data center to the cows."
But HP has produced this whizzy diagram: