Will a switch to light speed cut power use at data centres?
To save power and add capacity, data centres are switching from copper wires to tech using light.
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Notable Quotes
"The wires between these GPUs, CPUs, and all this compute are what's slowing us down."
— Chris Sharp , Executive
"You can save so much energy."
— Callum Littlejohns , Executive
"What's happening now with optics and photonics is there's kind of a reset."
— Peter O'Brien , Academic
"We've really gotten good at bringing the cost down on that electrical side, how to design it, how to manufacture it, how to test it, how to deploy it."
— Andrew Wheeler , Executive
Key People
Senior vice president at Hewlett Packard Labs.
Deputy director of silicon photonics foundry Cornerstone Labs.
Chief technology officer at data centre operator Digital Reality.
Head of research for photonics packaging and systems integration at Ireland's Tyndall Research Institute.
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To save power and add capacity, data centres are switching from copper wires to tech using light.
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