{"id":233471,"date":"2026-03-17T06:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/new-data-centers-will-be-powered-by-human-brain-cells"},"modified":"2026-03-17T06:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:04:12","slug":"new-data-centers-will-be-powered-by-human-brain-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/new-data-centers-will-be-powered-by-human-brain-cells","title":{"rendered":"New Data Centers Will Be Powered by Human Brain Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-data-centers-will-be-powered-by-human-brain-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, Cortical Labs is ready to scale up the operation. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-03-09\/human-brain-cells-run-new-data-centers-in-singapore-melbourne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Bloomberg<\/em> reports<\/a>, the company says it\u2019s working on \u201cbiological data centers\u201d in Melbourne, Australia, and Singapore. Simply put, instead of relying on Nvidia chips like AI companies, Cortical Labs is planning to outfit its futuristic facilities with racks of CL1 biological computers, powered by many more human brain cells, instead.<\/p>\n<p>The company refers to this approach as \u201cwetware,\u201d an unsettling new take on software and hardware terminology. Simply put, the computers send electrical signals to neurons derived from human blood stem cells. The chips embedded within record those neurons\u2019 responses as the output.<\/p>\n<p>The company teamed up with DayOne Data Centers, to develop the two facilities. The Melbourne data center will house 120 CL1 units, while DayOne is planning to deploy as many as 1,000 units at the one in Singapore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, Cortical Labs is ready to scale up the operation. As Bloomberg reports, the company says it\u2019s working on \u201cbiological data centers\u201d in Melbourne, Australia, and Singapore. Simply put, instead of relying on Nvidia chips like AI companies, Cortical Labs is planning to outfit its futuristic facilities with racks of CL1 biological computers, powered by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}