Comment Re:Green-washing (Score 1) 231
Improving the performance by two orders of magnitude probably won't cut energy costs now, but it would allow massive cost and energy savings in the future.
Organizations that would normally be upgrading to a larger, more energy-hungry supercomputer would be much more likely to skip the purchase. If they do upgrade — or if they're buying their first supercomputer — they'll be able to get the performance they wanted with a tiny fraction of the hardware, which also means a tiny fraction of the cost and power consumption.