<story><title>New superconductor microprocessor yields a substantial boost in efficiency</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/new-superconductor-microprocessor-yields-a-substantial-boost-in-efficiency</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>b0rsuk</author><text>Given the cooling requirements, I suppose it would create completely impassable rift between datacenter computing and other kinds. Imagine how programming and operating systems might look in a world where processing power is 80x cheaper.&lt;p&gt;Considering that &amp;quot;data centers alone consume 2% of world&amp;#x27;s enegy&amp;quot;, I think it&amp;#x27;s worth it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xvedejas</author><text>It seems likely that the more efficient our processors become, the larger share of the world&amp;#x27;s energy we&amp;#x27;ll devote to them [0]. Not that that&amp;#x27;s necessarily a bad thing, if we&amp;#x27;re getting more than proportionally more utility out of the processors, but I worry about that too [1].&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Jevons_paradox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Jevons_paradox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Wirth%27s_law&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Wirth%27s_law&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>New superconductor microprocessor yields a substantial boost in efficiency</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/new-superconductor-microprocessor-yields-a-substantial-boost-in-efficiency</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>b0rsuk</author><text>Given the cooling requirements, I suppose it would create completely impassable rift between datacenter computing and other kinds. Imagine how programming and operating systems might look in a world where processing power is 80x cheaper.&lt;p&gt;Considering that &amp;quot;data centers alone consume 2% of world&amp;#x27;s enegy&amp;quot;, I think it&amp;#x27;s worth it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>layoutIfNeeded</author><text>&amp;gt;Imagine how programming and operating systems might look in a world where processing power is 80x cheaper.&lt;p&gt;So like 2009 compared to 2021? Based on that, I&amp;#x27;d say even more inefficient webshit.</text></comment>