Calling all scrap dudes and dude-ettes! This is a good place to get copper while at the same time saving water for humans. It’s a win-win.

I mean yeah

That’s why data centers use fiber… this article is like someone going into a water park and saying “there are slides, with WATER!”

Neat article. Thank you for sharing OP.

Definitely interested to see if they’ll be able to deliver on the promised improvements as it sounds like this would massively reduce the heat, energy, and material wasted with the current technologies.

I assume these connectors would be a drop in place replacement for existing infrastructure. Something it doesn’t seem to touch on is what the thermal implications are on the actual modules, they mention overall less energy which typically results in less thermals, but I would assume this might be similar to heat concentration from high speed fiber connections.

I wonder what makes these new cables different than existing active optical cables?

So they reinvented coaxial cables?