• Fontasia@feddit.nl
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    5 hours ago

    Computers use electricity to do math. The more electricity you have, the more math you can do. In order to do the math, the electricity is handled in a way that outputs heat. Unfortunately, the most reliable, cost effective and plentiful materials that allow electricity to do a lot of math also get heavily impacted by heat.

    • FiskFisk33@startrek.website
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      4 hours ago

      modern cpus has an energy density on par with nuclear power plant cores.

      they need cooling, money cant break physics.