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CO2 Emissions from Met Office Supercomputer
A new £33m machine purchased to calculate how climate change will affect Britain, has a giant carbon footprint of its own.
For the Met Office the forecast is considerable embarrassment. It has spent £33m on a new supercomputer to calculate how climate change will affect Britain – only to find the new machine has a giant carbon footprint of its own.
“The new supercomputer, which will become operational later this year, will emit 14,400 tonnes of CO2 a year,” said Dave Britton, the Met Office’s chief press officer. This is equivalent to the CO2 emitted by 2,400 homes – generating an average of six tonnes each a year.
The Times: Met Office forecasts a supercomputer embarrassment
January 25th, 2009 at 5:30 am
Another £33m wasted, by a country on the brink of banking collapse.
Tax payers money wasted yet again.
The warming hasnt matched the computer predictions to date, so why should this £33m white elephant be any better
Goverment departments have terrible times with computer projects, they get seduced by the siren sales people and sign the contracts then it all goes belly up , doesnt work and guess what — no one is accountable.
They should work on the KISS principle– Keep IT Simple STupid. The Russians embrace this and it works well for them on limited resources