First Zero-Water Zero-Emission 142kw Hydrogen-Powered Gb300 Datacenter
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Lambda and ECL have launched the world's first zero-water, zero-emission 142kW hydrogen-powered data center using NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems, sparking discussion on the feasibility and implications of hydrogen-powered infrastructure.
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> Nearly all of the world's current supply of hydrogen is created from fossil fuels.
> As of 2023, less than 1% of dedicated hydrogen production is low-carbon, i.e. blue hydrogen, green hydrogen, and hydrogen produced from biomass.
"World’s Largest Green Hydrogen Plant release first-ever footage after achieving more than 80% Construction Completion across all sites" (2025) https://hydrogen-central.com/neom-worlds-largest-green-hydro...
Is hydrogen from would-be-landfilled unsorted plastics (with plasma, EM induction, and/or flash heating) "teal" hydrogen?
Blue because sourced from hydrocarbons, Green because diverting plastic from landfills to hydrogen and graphene?
"Hydrogen-Powered Plasma Torch Decimates Plastic Waste in a Blink" (2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45127089 .. https://www.kimm.re.kr/eng/sub011001/view/id/1435 :
> The plasma process developed by the program team overcomes these limitations. Its ultra-high-temperature operation rapidly breaks down polymer structures while suppressing carbon formation by using 100% hydrogen fuel. As a result, the process not only secures long-term operational stability but also enables the selective conversion of over 70–80% of the outputs into ethylene and benzene. Notably, even waxes—previously unusable in pyrolysis—could be converted at more than 80% selectivity, boosting energy efficiency.
Can this hydrogen plasma plastic recycling process be tuned down to intentionally produce graphene as a byproduct?
> Maybe rGO reduced graphene oxide wafers could be deoxidized with hydrogen plasma, thus eliminating PFAS-containing photoresist
Another hydrogen plasma question and opportunity:
Would there be net Hydrogen from deoxidizing Aluminum (Al2O3) with Hydrogen cold plasma, maybe through a water loop? Would that sterilize the water? Would that demineralize the water? Hydrolysis and/or a fuel cell?
If the actual goal is CO2 reduction, and 99% of H2 production is "full-carbon" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production - then why aren't they just building a conventional DC, but with no-water-use cooling? The electricity could come from solar arrays & wind farms, with batteries or something for storage.
Vs. if it's just a "Hydrogen is Trending" PR exercise - that seems a much better fit for the facts.
There is at least one large green hydrogen producer.
I don't know how that changes the total energy problems of hydrogen production and storage. Is it that new methods of hydrogen production have more efficiency?
Let's hope for more green hydrogen production.
A plentiful catalyst like Aluminum might make more green hydrogen, for which there are numerous applications like deoxidizing aluminum and deoxidizing reduced graphene oxide wafers for semiconductor and superconductor production.