The £30 million supercomputer in Exeter, Devon was designed to predict the weather. It turns out it the massive machine may also be able to change the climate. The UK-based Met Office, which owns the machine revealed recently that it may be one of the biggest sources of pollution in the country.
The machine requires 1.2 megawatts to run. That, as The Daily Mail points out, is enough energy to power a whopping 1,000 homes. The Met Office outputs a mind-boggling 12,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide every year, 75-percent of which can be attributed to the supercomputer.
A spokesman for the company called the machine “vital” to British meteorology, adding, “We recognize that it is big, but it is also necessary. We couldn’t do what we do without it. We would be throwing ourselves back into the dark ages of weather forecasting if we withdrew our reliance on supercomputing, it’s as simple as that.”
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