Reply to post: Re: Good thing world electricity production won't flatline until 2040

By 2040, computers will need more electricity than the world can generate

Daniel von Asmuth
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Re: Good thing world electricity production won't flatline until 2040

To bad nuclear fusion won't be productuon-ready until2050.

As IBM told us in 1945, the world has a need for 5 computers. According to the graph the world produces 3 TW of electricity, which will be sufficient for the GW class of computers expected in 2020, but if a 2030 supercomputer (1000 Exaflops) draws 1 TW, that will power only three computers.

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