Data Plant - A Raw Material Powered Data Generator

摘要

A “data plant” accepts power-generation-capable raw materials and outputs processed data. The processed data can be delivered to consumers more efficiently than other forms of power transfer, including power transfer through electricity, steam, physical motion, and the like. Consequently, data plants can be located where power-generation-capable raw materials can be obtained inexpensively, for free, or where power-generation-capable raw materials are waste products for which the operator of the data plants can be compensated for processing. Self-powered data plants need not even be continuously fed with power-generation-capable raw materials and, if such data plants receive and output data via wireless communications, the self-powered data plants can require no physical connection or attachment at all. For example, a single piece of silicon comprising a silicon solar cell that generates electrical power and silicon circuitry that consumes it to perform data processing can be a silicon self-powered data plant.

主权项

1. A data plant comprising:
data processing circuitry performing steps comprising:
receiving input data from external to the data plant;performing processing, requested by a data consumer located remotely from the data plant, of the input data; andtransmitting the output data, generated by the processing of the input data, to the data consumer; a power generator consuming raw materials and generating therefrom direct current electrical power at a native voltage of at least some of the data processing circuitry; and a single physical enclosing structure comprising both the data processing circuitry and the power generator.