Unlike traditional data centres built around energy-intensive silicon chips, the biological data centre would use "wetware" — or clusters of neurons grown from stem cells that form brain-like networks capable of processing information — to run AI workloads with far lower energy use than conventional hardware.
Singapore's push to make data centres more sustainable is prompting experiments that range from growing living neurons to power computers to running facilities at warmer temperatures.
DayOne, a Singapore-headquartered data centre developer, is partnering with Melbourne-based biological computing start-up Cortical Labs to develop a major biological data centre.
