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| an old sketch on newsprint with markers, in a journal. |
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Friday's are Beatriz Days!
Good friend and spectacular artist, Beatriz Helton, and I have dubbed Friday as our day together when we can. We have lunch, yesterday at Olive Garden, then we visited the Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University. It is a lovely venue in downtown Orange, which is a small college town, It is free admission, and free parking, all rare for museums. They had a portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Hilbert who made this quality museum possible. Beatriz and I said thank you as we went by. There are two large adjacent galleries and they rescued a massive mosaic by California artist, Millar Sheets, from a defunct Saving and Loan in Los Angeles.
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| Too large to get it all without moving back, and too hot to do that. |
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| by Beatriz |
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| "Young Horse with Bird" a Bronze by Mark Edward Adams |
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| close-up of above |
And the day ended with popsicles at my place. Day 2, in the books.
China is exploring underwater data centers by placing sealed server modules on the ocean floor, where the naturally cold seawater helps cool high-performance computers.
Conventional data centers require large amounts of electricity for cooling and, in some locations, significant quantities of freshwater. By taking advantage of the consistently low temperatures found in deeper ocean water, underwater facilities can greatly reduce the energy needed for cooling while minimizing—or in some cases eliminating—the use of freshwater cooling systems.
Reports of up to a 90% reduction in cooling energy refer specifically to the electricity used for cooling, not the total energy consumption of the entire data center. The overall efficiency still depends on factors such as the hardware, workload, and operating environment.
As artificial intelligence drives demand for more computing power, underwater data centers are emerging as one of several technologies being tested to improve energy efficiency and reduce the environmental footprint of digital infrastructure.
Whether they become widely adopted will depend on long-term performance, maintenance costs, environmental impacts, and how they compare with other cooling technologie
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Monday's Smiles ...
Hoping you feel all the good things in your day.
