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Tesla V100 Inside Wind Power Plant [video]

by 3xa on 3/7/20, 5:39 PM with 4 comments

  • by nabla9 on 3/7/20, 6:03 PM

    I upvoted because this seems so strange and meaningless. Maybe somebody can explain why it can be economic to scatter their servers all over the countryside? It's not like the cost of transferring renewable electricity is the issue here. I would think that maintenance, data transfer etc. are more costly.

    First I thought that it just demonstrates portability, but https://examesh.de/en/ really does this

    >AI Docker Instances in Wind Power Plants -We only operate Instances in green power plants, as our short video shows.

    >Small RE plants, such as our Nordtank 600 60/43 with 600 kWp, are equipped with only one Edge Data Center (EDC). Two servers are currently installed in each EDC, each providing three Instances. Larger RE plants, however, can be equipped with two, three, four or even more EDCs.https://examesh.de/en/faqs/#faq-4490