Only Apple Can Instantly Solve The A.I. Data Center Challenge
Apple can deliver all the power for all the A.I. for a generation - with ZERO capital investment
The largest fallacy since the Tulip Bulb Market Bubble is the nonsense that the world needs data centers - hundreds more - to power artificial intelligence applications.
What makes this data center fallacy more egregious - and dangerous - is millions of acres of farmland will be torn asunder, electric bills needlessly raised for years - before the first such data center comes on line.
Yet, at this very moment, there exists, more unused computing power than the most optimistic data center forecast, sitting on the desks, in the pockets, on the wrists - of everyone using an Apple device.
As we have written on Substack, the FATAL DATA CENTER EQUATION provably leads to fewer data centers, not more.
The Fatal Data Center Equation:
Data centers spend 95% of their energy processing I/O wait states.
Reduce I/O wait states, applications run much faster with the same energy and equipment.
Reduce I/O wait states a LOT, and every application runs 1,000 times faster.
Thus every application needs 1/1000th the hardware for the same work.
Thus every application needs 1/1000th the energy for the same processing.
Thus, no data center is needed.
And, for A.I. - everything runs 1,000 times faster - which is impossible - even with more data centers.
But the application has to run somewhere.
The current computing model is highly centralized - data is collected everywhere - at the retail store, the gas station, the pharmacy, oil rig and sent to a central processing location - the data center.
The cloud came along and as users are quick to say today - now that the bloom is off that rose - there is no cloud, it’s just someone else’s data center running yesterday’s technology.
So where do we run all the new applications blasting forth to support A.I.?
Perhaps on the world’s largest super computer - which does not exist in footprint form, it is a virtual data center from the aggregation of every Apple device - run simultaneously - computing a specific application - let’s start there.
Of course that cannot happen because not everyone wants their device - from a watch, to a tablet, to a desktop, laptop or server shanghaied into this effort.
Thus we deal with logical boundaries - the devices owned by an entity.
Let’s take a Fortune 500 energy corporation for example.
That energy firm has thousands of Apple devices - from a watch to a server in the marketing department, laptops all over the place - company-owned.
Those devices each have an IP address and compute power - thus are a warm, comfortable place to load up a Fractal or a few.
Instantly, you created a virtual data center.
This isn’t some kluge with wires hanging outside the desk drawer - it’s not some weird system that could threaten the Apple operating system - it is just clean, dutiful Fractals - each with the same tech stack - just with different data - delivering work 1,000 times faster than the company’s mainframe - IBM and Oracle inside.
What becomes fascinating are the possibilities outside of what is being done today.
We all know nobody is going to hook up all their Apple devices through Fractals and shut down a data center. That’s not how stuff operates - yet.
This concept - called a MESH - will happen. It will happen first where there is no alternative.
Disruption comes from the edge, not from the comfortable middle. Let’s go to that edge.
Since the Fractal team started this Substack, we engaged with industry leaders in the electric utility space - where the problem is IoT devices delivering thousands of times more data than any current database can handle.
They came to Fractal because it was purpose-built for such almost infinite scale without degradation and without another data center.
https://thesustainablecomputinginitiative.com/manage-sensors-meters-and-devices/
Some very colorful new friends came from the Department of Defense arena - and their applications are fascinating.
Did you know our government types cannot make 100,000 warbird drones operate - without a central point of control - to attack as one entity?
Well, we don’t do that sort of thing here in Austin, but as the government types quickly realized, Fractal and MESH computing can deliver that capability today.
It’s the same thing - same compute model, as the Apple MESH we noted above - harnessing N number of devices, with no central point of control, to operate as a super computer - instantly.
Why the “no central point of control?”
When we talk about MESH computing, we are talking about a different computing model - edge computing writ large, like really large.
Most computing today is about sending data to a cloud or central processor. So there is latency, expense, stuff goes down and all the nodes are dead for a bit - that is a 1980s model and it is obsolete.
Fractal brings decisioning to the problem - not its reciprocal.
Decisioning at the problem means 800 guys, in battle formation, in a jungle, each with an Apple watch - now have a super computer doing “no central point of failure” processing.
You can see the obvious benefit.
Why collect targeting info in a battlefield, send it to Bezos or Oracle, wait for it to come back, and call customer service if it doesn’t?
Better to have full compute there in the kill zone, and there is no way to break the MESH because every such node is independent - just with different data.
What appealed to our new DoD type friends is we have it and our adversaries don’t.
So having American boys, fully engaged on a battlefield, with super computers among them is a nice thing to deliver to those who protect us.
That takes us back to Apple.
The most talked about issue in computing today is A.I. and the power not available to deliver A.I. capabilities. Legislators are all over this issue - mayors and governors who cannot log onto an Amazon product return session are preaching the building of data centers.
The Fractal team sees the world differently - because we have scores of gigantic applications - each of which takes a full data center - and we run them on 4 inch computers plugged into a wall.
We are asked all the time, what do we think will turn back the nonsense that America needs all these data centers?
Our response is that Apple could end it in a short time by publicizing demonstration projects showing that while IBM, Dell and HP own the data center - Apple - in any of its customers - can deliver a virtual data center today - with zero capital cost - that out-performs the company’s current data center.
The Apple virtual data center runs with NO additional energy.
The Apple virtual data center runs with NO additional hardware.
The Apple virtual data center is hailed by citizens for saving their farmland.
The Apple virtual data center is 100% sustainable - not a foot of concrete is poured.
We are being invited to the A-List meetings because the pain for boards of directors is that great.
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