"One huge plus for biological data centres is their low energy footprint as they are not heat-generating servers that require cooling, said Chong.

In Singapore, the energy and water demands of traditional data centres were so intense that the country imposed a temporary pause on the construction of new facilities in 2019 to plan for greener digital growth.

In 2019, data centres accounted for about 5.3 per cent of the country’s electricity consumption, a figure that rose to 7 per cent in 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated digitalisation.

Brain cells, by contrast, use very little energy and do not need cooling. At 30 watts per unit, each CL1 uses less power than a handheld calculator. This is even with its life-support systems factored in, said Chong.

Comparatively, an AI silicon chip such as Nvidia’s H100 SXM can consume up to 700 watts when running demanding computing tasks.

A typical data centre server containing eight H100 chips can consume up to about 10,200 watts, including power consumed by supporting hardware.

“Singapore is a major fibre connectivity hub in the Asia-Pacific region, so it is naturally a very important place for data centres because they need fast connections to move vast amounts of data. But Singapore has constraints in terms of electricity and water, and our technology can help to overcome that,” said Chong."

https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/forget-silicon-chip-servers-singapores-newest-data-centre-needs-to-be-fed

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