What does a data center do for me?
It already does, even if you never visit one.
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And then there is science
- Cancer research requires compute.
- Drug discovery requires compute.
- Genomics requires compute.
- Protein modeling requires compute.
- Disease modeling requires compute.
- Climate modeling requires compute.
Compute lives somewhere.
Before we ask what compute costs…
What is a cure worth?
That does not eliminate legitimate questions about water, electricity, land, cost, or community impact. It explains why getting the engineering and policy right matters.
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