China’s secretive Sunway Pro CPU quadruples performance over its predecessor, allowing the supercomputer to hit exaflop speeds::Sunway’s SW26010 Pro packs 384 compute cores, could power exascale-class supercomputers.

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      11 months ago

      They have made pretty good progress when it finds to renewable energy. But they also still use a fuck ton of coal. About 55% of their energy comes from coal. Better than 10 years ago when it was 70% but still way too much.

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        11 months ago

        Can you please link sources?
        I’m interested in the total TWh of electric energy generated (now and then), because they may very well release more CO2 in total at 55% now compared to 70% 10 years ago.

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            11 months ago

            Thanks for following that up!
            At least the total coal energy use did stay almost the same due to the reduced share of it.
            It’s not the win one could’ve hoped for, but it’s not horrible either.

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      China built more than the entire solar capacity of the united states in this year alone and got 25 nuclear power plants under construction. per capita CO2 emmisions in china have been lower than the US for a while now.