The Hidden Cost of Computing

Supercomputing comes at a huge cost, the electricity bills to power the massive computer stacks are eye-watering. The computing carbon footprint is also prodigious, but usually invisible to the scientists who use supercomputers in their work because they're remote from where it's all going on. But awareness is improving and the industry is taking steps to shift computing loads to countries and centres with best renewable energy provisions. Finland is one of them as we'll hear shortly, James Ticco has been investigating. You're listening to the naked scientists with me, Chris Smith, Dr Cum, could a heat-resistant drone help to find survivors and save firefighters in fires?