In a transfer that will deliver new that means to the time period “cloud-computing”, HyperScale Nexus Holding Corp, a enterprise centred round offering Nvidia H100 GPUs for AI and HPC markets, entered into an settlement to amass the Colorado primarily based American Hashish Firm inc final month. The corporate describes itself as offering business particular advisory and consulting companies, manufacture of cultivation merchandise, and amenities for hashish startups.
HyperScale Nexus in the meantime supplies “unparalleled cloud companies, managed internet hosting {and professional} companies” with their present inventory of 30,000 leased Nvidia H100 chipsets, though fairly what that is bought to do with the acquisition of the American Hashish Firm stays hazy.
All that being mentioned, it isn’t the primary time we have seen a wedding of datacentres and, shall we embrace, cultivation. Equinix has been recycling warmth from its knowledge centres to develop fruit and greens in Paris, and properly, hashish may be grown in a lot the identical method, so it is affordable to imagine that there could also be extra cross-pollination right here than it’s possible you’ll initially anticipate.
As we perceive it (and naturally that is primarily based purely on a considerable amount of web analysis), hashish flowers require a prolonged and intensive drying course of earlier than changing into, shall we embrace, usable. Maybe we would even be a courageous new world by which somebody’s subsequent bag of devils-lettuce has been gently cooked by the exhaust of an Nvidia GPU. What a time to be alive certainly.
All this brings to thoughts the glory days of the primary crypto-craze, by which some enterprising Bitcoin miners endeavoured to utilize all that climate-bothering waste warmth by, err, drying small baggage of fruit for buy. Whereas this was rightly derided by many as a nothing however a little bit of enterprising gimmickry, it does tie in to a real concern amongst datacentre suppliers that their companies are, not less than on the floor, not probably the most eco-friendly of operations. Tech corporations like Microsoft and Meta have been desirous to announce artistic makes use of for their very own warmth recycling initiatives, and it might come as no shock if we noticed extra datacentre suppliers trying new and inventive methods to utilize all that extra power.
Any option to recycle waste warmth could be value , and whereas the true motivations of this acquisition stay unclear, this budding new enterprise could also be an try and waylay these issues in a single hit.
