A collective server network could provide the connective tissue to sustain the various individual software and data bubbles. On the other hand, I do believe that it is important to begin to conceive of computation as an effective form of energy storage. The result of long calculations, the solution to the problem, is itself the concentrate of this energy, as if it were a charged battery or a piece of wood that has stored the sun’s energy by building up an intricate latticework of atoms to form cellulose. In this case, however, we are not talking about the conventional energy we are accustomed to and which does not escape the laws of thermodynamics, but rather, about energy produced, stored and transmitted through the field of entropy. Every calculation, whether made in one’s head or calculated by a supercomputer, leaves its imprint on entropy, slightly disordering the wonderful universal chaos. Often when I install a photovoltaic system, I summarily calculate the millions of watts the plates produce that will not be used because the batteries are full and no one is home. Wouldn’t it be great if each of these installations had its own little server ready to turn excess electricity into computing power? Maybe connected to a decentralised network, an honest and immutable blockchain to calculate together with all the other servers our impact in the chaos. I would like to set up a solar VPS hosting in the Alpujarras. I’ve been hacking for a couple of years with the kids in a school near Orgiva. We plan to set up a solar server there next year.
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