Dr. Emma Rose
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2.4 megawatts as it's using at the moment, there's no generators that would keep that sustained for long enough.
We do have some critical systems on the site that we do need to keep going.
The cooling, for instance, we would want to keep going in the event of a power cap.
And we've also got some air-cooled equipment that ran as storage and our logins and management nodes.
We need that to keep going because if that shuts down suddenly, it does take a long time to bring it back up again.
So we have a generator on the site that will keep it going for a few hours in the event of a power cap.
So within the modular data center itself, there's big air conditioning units.
So the air around us is reasonably cool.
But the GPUs, it's a closed loop system of a glycol water mixture that runs over the GPUs and extracts the heat.
Takes them out to the coolers outside.
And then once it's been cooled by the coolers, it's returned back into the system again.
Yeah, absolutely.
So the blue pipes are the cool liquid that's just come off the coolers.
And it runs through the GPUs, extracts the heat, and then it comes through on the red pipes.
Absolutely, yes.
Absolutely, definitely.
The only alternative is air-cooled and that's got some huge disadvantages in terms of sustainability.
It would also mean that the system itself would take up about eight times the space that we're using at the moment.
So the system is very dense, densely packed in a relatively small area because it's direct liquid-cooled.
It's a water glycol mix.