Interstellar Energy Tycoon

2030.

The time has entered May.

Most of the attention of public opinion in China is on the immigrants of the space city "Nuwa City". There will be no inconvenient places and so on.

Many people are watching, especially young people, who are weighing in their hearts. If the space city is very good, they will not consider going to a big city for development, but also go to the space city to find opportunities; if the space city has many inconvenient In other places, it is better to go to big cities for development. Although housing prices in big cities are a bit high and prices are also high, there are still many advantages in big cities, especially in terms of culture and entertainment. Big cities have countless splendors.

Therefore, it is still very attractive to the vast number of young people.

However, with the immigration of some space cities, many short videos about the work and life in the space city have been shot, so that people can have a more comprehensive understanding of the situation in the space city.

The young people suddenly became very interested and their eyes lit up.

"The space city is very good. I think it is very good to develop in space."

"Whether it's education or medical care, it's no worse than big cities, and it's basically free. It's really delicious. I admit that I'm moved."

"If you live in a space city, you can live at least twenty years longer. It is still a high-quality life, which is unmatched by Azure Star. For this point, even people with the status of emperors will rush to space."

"That's right, I want to live for a few more years and see more exciting things. I'm thinking of getting involved in the development of a space city."

According to an online survey, 75% of young people expressed their willingness to develop in a space city. Even in today’s big cities, there are many opportunities for development, the salary is not low, and there are many young people, beautiful women, and countless exciting entertainment activities. , but it is still not as desirable as a space city. After all, there are countless wonderful things in space.

The other 25% of young people, it’s not that they don’t want to go to space cities, it’s just that these young people are either from big cities themselves, or they have very good conditions and have already worked hard in big cities. Giving up everything they already have, they belong to people who have many resources, they are not empty-handed, unencumbered, and they are unlikely to run to the space city.

Of course, there are still a small number of young people who are too addicted to the virtual online game "Land of Glory". They know that there is no way to play this game in the space city. Many, they don't want to go to the space city anymore, they can't even play virtual online games, and can't continue to experience the wonderful Second Life, then there is no fun and meaning at all. In reality, they are ordinary and ordinary, only in virtual online games. There is a meaning of being alive. Virtual online games are really indispensable to them, and the importance may exceed the boring real life.

To sum up the analysis.

Then remove some young people who are vacillating.

The proportion of young people who are willing to go to the space city to develop in the end is estimated to be around 50%, which is half to half with the proportion of those who stay.

even so.

Many first-tier big cities still did not feel relieved, but panicked, and immediately launched a large number of welfare measures, doing everything possible to keep young people.

For example, it has also launched preferential medical services, with a reimbursement rate of at least 70%. At the same time, it has adopted the medical diagnosis AI system developed by Huayao Company to reduce the cost of medical treatment for ordinary people.

Comprehensively popularize AI education, no longer suppress the application of artificial intelligence in the field of education, and reduce the cost of education for ordinary people.

Provide more jobs and development opportunities.

Build a large number of low-rent housing, public rental housing, etc., to suppress the phenomenon of excessive housing rents, and reduce the cost of living for young people.

There are also virtual online games and so on. Vigorously promote them so that more young people can embrace a wonderful second life and consolidate their advantages in this area.

After a series of measures, they also showed a lot of sincerity.

The proportion of young people who are willing to stay in a big city has increased a lot, making the space city seem to be less attractive, or they have changed their minds and plan to wait until they are a little older and retire, when they are in their sixties , and then go to the space city to develop, improve their quality of life, and strive to live for more than ten years, and regard the space city as a place suitable for the elderly.

Faced with such a situation.

Huayao Corporation and relevant state agencies had to hold a meeting to discuss for a long time, thinking about the solution, and finally came to a conclusion: Unless it is in a space city, one or more high-performance supercomputers should be deployed, and then the quantum Computing functions are integrated, and then the operating environment of virtual online games is deployed, so that young people can also play their favorite virtual online games in the space city. Only in this way, quite a few young people will change their minds and will not be too nostalgic Those conveniences in big cities are also willing to go to space cities to find opportunities.

However, virtual online games have extremely high requirements on computer hardware.

Only a supercomputer with a computing power of more than 100 billion exaflops can barely run virtual online games with low image quality and low fidelity.

Only a supercomputer with a computing power of more than 500 billion exaflops can run medium-to-high-quality, high-fidelity virtual online games, and accommodate millions of players to experience the game at the same time.

However, the number of players who enter the game at the same time exceeds the level of tens of millions. To ensure long-term stable operation, at least one supercomputer with a computing capacity of more than 1 trillion exaflops is required, or multiple supercomputers with a computing capability of 500 billion exascale. , to perform parallel distributed computing, it is barely enough.

Then integrate quantum computing technology into the game, and use the superpower of quantum technology in certain calculations to improve the fluency and stability of virtual online games, and even allow more players to be online at the same time.

In short, a lot of advanced technology is needed.

What's more, the power consumption brought by such a supercomputing is also very huge. It consumes two to three million kilowatt-hours of electricity a day. The average small and medium-sized company cannot afford such a large power consumption. If the scale of players does not reach 100 Level 10,000 is not profitable at all, because the cost of hardware such as chips, storage, and memory costs at least a billion. As for the development of virtual online games, it requires countless top programmers. After several years of programming, Pay more than five billion in development costs.

All together, there is no 10 billion, and there is no way for a virtual online game to run smoothly.

Considering the network delay factor, if virtual online games are also deployed in the space city, the number of players that can be served is at least one million, and it is impossible to reach tens of millions or hundreds of millions. Therefore, the profit prospect is very pessimistic. Ten or twenty years will not be able to recoup the cost, let alone making money. After all, the life cycle of many online games is five years. Generally, it is two or three years, and the update iteration is extremely fast.

even so.

Huayao Company still plans to find a way to deploy virtual online games in the space city. Even if it is not profitable, it cannot lack this important 'infrastructure'.

The reason is very simple. In the future, the majority of young people’s entertainment will probably be to wear a virtual helmet and indulge in the virtual world. Even if they don’t play virtual games, they can wear a helmet and go shopping, watch news, watch movies, anime and other immersive entertainment. Novels, etc., are no longer swiping the phone with the head down. The virtual world is all-encompassing. You can do whatever you want, and you don’t need to operate it with your hands. You can control it through your mind, which is more convenient and easy to use. The helmet enters a deep sleep, because brain scientists have achieved the method of electric stimulation, so that the time flow in the virtual world seems to be two or three times faster than the real world, so wear the helmet and sleep for two or three hours , which is equivalent to having slept for five or six hours, and the effect is exactly the same.

It is also possible to learn through virtual reality technology, which will improve the learning efficiency a lot.

It has even created a large number of jobs. For example, in Huaguo today, there are millions of professional virtual online game goldsmiths. It is also the first choice of many part-time workers, and it has indeed created a lot of employment.

On the whole, a supercomputing platform that can deploy virtual online games is a must. Even if the number of users served is not large and it is not economically cost-effective, if it is not available, the negative effects will be great.

As for the cost of tens of billions, although it cannot be avoided, there are some ways to reduce the cost in the operation process.

Especially in terms of energy, if the top-level supercomputers that consume millions of kilowatt-hours of electricity a day can reduce the price of electricity to about 20 cents, then the operating electricity cost will be compared with those supercomputers on the ground that use 50 cents per kilowatt-hour of electricity. Forget it, you can save 60% of your electricity bill at once.

In terms of hardware CPU, if you go to buy a 1-nanometer chip produced by the 'Xingyuan Bingyun' company, you can order tens of millions of chips at one time! It should be no problem to reduce the price of chips that originally cost 70,000 to 80,000 to 30,000 to 30,000. After all, the amount of tens of millions of chips is quite terrifying, and the material cost of the chip is very low. At most, it will cost two to three hundred. After becoming a high-performance chip, the value can be guaranteed hundreds of times. This is an absolute super-profiteering industry. However, Huayao Company does not manufacture chips itself, but only cultivates a few business partners. If you also make cores yourself, you are fully confident in reducing the cost to a lower level.

In this way, the price of energy has dropped, and the price of high-end chips has also dropped. With a two-pronged approach, the deployment of high-performance supercomputers should save a lot of expenses. Can bear it, and let hundreds of thousands of players experience a more relaxed game environment. You don't have to be crowded with millions of players, and then grab monsters to grab copies, causing countless conflicts, and it's very introverted. In the virtual online games in the city, the density of players is greatly reduced, there are not too many people to grab the copy, and the conflicts will be much less, and it will not be too introverted. not good.

The technicians of Huayao Company even planned to change the operation mode of virtual online games, intending to greatly enhance the intelligence and strength of NPCs, so that the behavior logic of NPCs is close to that of normal human beings, and they also have their personalities, needs and desires, and have mastered them. A lot of resources have established powerful countries one by one, and their strength in all aspects is far greater than that of novice players who enter the game.

"After players enter the game, facing the NPC forces, they have no advantage in the early stage. They are very weak. They may not even be able to defeat ordinary farmers. It is very laborious to kill monsters such as rabbits and wild boars. It is very difficult to rely on the efforts of one person alone. It is difficult to upgrade quickly, and you must hug other players to keep warm, so that you can easily eliminate monsters and achieve upgrades."

"The world in the game has an area of ​​1 billion square kilometers. There are all kinds of terrains. The resources are very rich. The number of dungeons, mines, cities, and medicine gardens exceeds one million. On average, each player can share When it reaches two or three, there may not be time to take care of it, and the freedom of resources can be realized without fierce competition among players."

"The biggest difficulty is the need to compete with the strength of NPCs, defeating the duchies, kingdoms, and empires established by NPCs one by one. If the players are not united enough and always like to fight alone, even if they have strong strength, at most It is only the ability of a hundred or a thousand enemies. Facing thousands of troops, no matter how powerful the players are, there is a possibility of being piled up to death. Only when three or five hundred players unite can it be possible to win and manage a principality , three to five thousand players unite to rule a kingdom, as for a powerful empire, thirty to fifty thousand players are needed to achieve effective rule and management.”

"When the total number of players is small and the game map is too large, the conflicts between players will actually be very few, and there will be a lot of places to cooperate. The main opponents are the highly intelligent NPCs in the game. When the players establish After achieving absolute rule, it is estimated that it will take five years before we can consider launching a new game, allowing players to take advantage of their infinite resurrection in the form of 'natural disasters' to harm the NPC forces of the next game, and by the way let Players are more united, and it is easier to unify externally."

This advice from experienced technicians.

Yu Dazui and others from Huayao Company nodded repeatedly, thinking that it made sense and was very good, so they immediately accepted it.

subsequently.

Yu Dazui called Li Xingyang of Xingyuan Group and put forward an application for cooperation, especially in the two aspects of energy and chips.

Phone.

After listening to Yu Dazui's request, Li Xingyang said:

"In terms of space energy, I can give you a price of 20 cents per degree, and the price can be cheaper if you use more. As for chips, I don't care. You have to ask Nan Yibing what she means. I can't make decisions on her behalf. "

Li Xingyang replied to him, in fact, the supply of space energy of Xingyuan Group is a little bit oversupply now, the total effective power has exceeded 3 billion KW, but only 2.5 billion KW can be used, and the remaining 500 million KW can only be stored in the energy backbone The road, leading to the second main energy road, has become saturated, and finally has to give up part of the energy, or increase the capacity of the main energy road.

But the most important thing is to promote consumption and let customers increase the consumption of space energy. This is the fundamental solution. However, Li Xingyang has thought of many ways recently, but none of them have a particularly good idea to promote energy consumption. The phone call gave him some ideas, and he thought of several ways to promote energy consumption. (end of this chapter)