This stupid computer stands accused of causing the very global warming it was programmed to predict...heh, heh!The Met Office has caused a storm of controversy after it was revealed their £30million supercomputer designed to predict climate change is one of Britain's worst polluters.
It is capable of 1,000 billion calculations every second to feed data to 400 scientists and uses 1.2 megawatts of energy to run - enough to power more than 1,000 homes.
The computer used 1.2 megawatts to run - enough to power 1,000 homes
However the Met Office's HQ has now been named as one of the worst buildings in Britain for pollution - responsible for more than 12,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.
You'd think that a main-frame computer with that much power and speed would be put to some useful purpose, like solving time travel or elucidating the secret of The Hanson Bro's popularity, rather than regurgitating the global-warming outcome it was programmed to find.
I guess when a computer costs $48billion, it's price-tag is supposed to lend credence to it's findings but, I can program the $800 desk-top that I'm using to type this post to come to the same conclusions. Either way, it's still wrong!
Stupid environmentalists!
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