What happens if we can't make another CPU...ever?What fails first? How long would datacenters last? Does the Internet start to fracture?Of course, it's a hy...
Pretty good Solarpunk prompt with some medium-hard sci-fi thrown in.
How I see it would be a massive investment into what would be previously e-waste. Even super low end hardware can be used as servers if given a lightweight Linux installation. Just yesterday I took an old budget Android phone out of the closet and factory reset it, debloated it, and installed a web server on it just for fun. Obviously I have much faster machines so I don’t need use it, but I could easily port forward my IP to it and host a website off of it if I needed to.
How I see it would be a massive investment into what would be previously e-waste. Even super low end hardware can be used as servers if given a lightweight Linux installation. Just yesterday I took an old budget Android phone out of the closet and factory reset it, debloated it, and installed a web server on it just for fun. Obviously I have much faster machines so I don’t need use it, but I could easily port forward my IP to it and host a website off of it if I needed to.