Datacenter Dangers #11 – Radioactive Effects of Datacenters
Turns out ‘there is something to it…’ 1. Direct Emissions: no alpha / beta / gamma evidence Modern servers, GPUs, routers, fiber optics, UPS units, chillers, and transformers do not contain mechanisms that normally emit alpha, beta, or gamma radiation. They emit heat, low-frequency electric/magnetic fields, and RF/optical signals — mostly non-ionizing. NRC’s basic ionizing … Read more