Because that’s the cooling system required to run the thing. It requires more toxic coolant, that will eventually end up in the ocean, than several hundred supercomputer megaclusters and sucks more power than a thousand suburbs.
Congrats on getting upvotes for this utter bullshit, none of which is substantiated in the article you linked.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Helium is not toxic and it sure as fuck isn’t going in the ocean after it escapes a quantum computer.
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 5 months ago
It’s also one of the most abundant elements in the universe
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
But it is difficult to acquire here on earth.
As uranium and thorium naturally decay underground, they produce some helium as well. That’s why you can literally make a helium mine. On earth it’s also a finite resource, because once released into the atmosphere, it will eventually escape the atmosphere and end up in space.