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The system as a whole will produce heat, but less.
by ska 6y ago
The system as a whole will produce heat, but less.
- nicoburns 6y agoTrue, but usually the problem is removing the heat from the chip, not the total amount of heat produced. If the heat is mostly produced by the cooling system then that problem all but goes away.
- ska 6y agoNot really at data centre scale. Heat directly in the CPU is a limiting factor on how fast an individual chip can go, and at the board level is an issue of getting heat away from the CPU somehow. But that heat has to go somewhere. When you have rooms full of them the power and cooling issues become key in a way that doesn't matter when it's just a PC in your room.
- mensetmanusman 6y agoAny entropy reduction activity in one area automatically means a lot more heat is added somewhere else :) (2nd law)