Inside the datacenter where the day starts with topping up cerebrospinal fluid

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Cortical Labs operates a datacenter in Melbourne, Australia, where biological computers made from human brain cells in cerebrospinal fluid are maintained daily by technicians. The company is now offering this biological computing capability as a cloud service, marking a novel frontier in computing technology.

<h4>Biological computing is messy and gassy – It’s now cloudy, too</h4> <p>At the start of the working day at Cortical Labs’ datacenter in Melbourne, Australia, technicians top up the resident computers with a liquid modelled on the cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds the human brain.…</p>