And we also need to equip this unit with professional cooling, professional water cooling that can meet the server's needs, which would cost tens of thousands of euros.
Mercer silently did the conversion, comparing it to the large underground server he had seen at the Arasaka Base—no, now it seemed it should be considered a super-scale server.
Great, if I want to build a server unit like the large servers at Arasaka's underground base, to reach that level of computing power...
Mercer probably needs to purchase a hundred small server units, and that would be enough.
Hmm, thirty million euros.
This deepened Mercer's covetous thoughts towards the Voodoo Gang's Sea God Server—even if that thing can't match Arasaka Base's configuration, it must be worth at least about a million euros.
No, that's not right, this group earns at least a million euros a month just from selling various chips, not to mention the illegal trades like extortion and online scams.
So... their large server cluster might even be better than the one Mercer escaped from at the Arasaka Base?
Moreover, the Voodoo Gang probably continues to invest hundreds of thousands of euros every year to add servers and update configurations.
Which means their Sea God Server actually upgrades yearly?
Mercer's heart itched even more.
Whether to snatch it now or later, that's the question.
But no matter what... sooner or later, it's got to be snatched away.
Letting those people use such a good thing to dig into the Black Wall is pure waste, isn't it? With that much computing power, it would be enough for Venus to start a self-driving car company and compete with Delaman for business.
Mercer sighed, estimated the size of his basement server room, and roughly calculated the computing power he needed, estimating his final requirements.
"In the future, we'll need at least ten enterprise-level small server units to basically satisfy my needs, which means three million euros..."
Mercer did the math, assuming this money is entirely earned from 40% of the team's income, which means he must earn at least ten million euros from commissions.
Ha... that old woman in biotechnology, could you please hurry and drop some gold coins?
"I mean... generally speaking, you don't really need such a big server, do you?" Lucy said, "Getting a server worth about a million euros should be enough for all of us hackers to use together."
"Did you forget how I used Arasaka's server?"
After Mercer spoke, Lucy was a bit puzzled, "I don't know the details... you also haven't explained clearly."
"When I could directly connect to the server's computing power, during deep dives in Cyberspace, the acceleration in thinking was very obvious and my mind became significantly more active.
I suspect it might have something to do with my special talent."
After Mercer finished, Lucy understood.
General servers are actually mostly used for automatically running some programs, storing data, and maintaining a local area network.
For hackers, often the utility is limited, at most it just slightly accelerates their thinking, allowing them to use more programs more comfortably.
But for Mercer...
Lucy cautiously asked, "Can you explain in detail? How do you feel?"
"Hmm..." Mercer thought for a moment and summarized, "It feels like I become an AI, to put it bluntly, that's it. The more computing power, the more I feel like an AI. Think about what an AI can do, that's what I can do."
Lucy carefully looked at his expression, but he just openly hid nothing, "When deep diving at Arasaka, my thinking acceleration probably reached several tens of times at the highest.
It's not that I could think that fast—I mean, just referring to data processing speed.
At that time, processing data was more like an instinct, so I didn't need to think.
As for the speed of thought, it was a few times faster than usual, I don't have an exact number, but I feel that thinking speed was definitely faster than when I activated Krenzikov in reality.
And the amazing thing is, that speed didn't even cause my brain severe overheating."
Lucy couldn't help but slightly open her mouth but couldn't say anything because she couldn't understand.
"So I need computing power, the more the better, under the augmentation of that computing power, whether it's learning or working online, it's twice the result with half the effort for me."
Mercer paused for a moment and continued, "And let's not forget, I also have an AI to run, for an AI, more computing power means faster growth."
Upon hearing this, Lucy was silent for a moment, finally saying, "Mercer, for the expenses of building the base, do you plan to use only public funds, or do you want to invest your own share of money too?"
"I intend to invest both, because my cybernetic modifications have reached a point where they can't advance further for now."
Mercer said, "Besides possibly installing some subdermal armor, I'm not planning any other cybernetic installations for now."
"Then... I'll also invest my share of the money into the base." Lucy made a decision.
She looked at Mercer, trying to object, but spoke first, "Do you want me to install some kind of cyber enhancement?"
"..." Mercer was momentarily speechless.
"Then do you want me to save this money? I'm a hacker, I don't need any weapons, I also need to use that server, so naturally, I should pay my share."
Lucy firmly said, "That's settled, and in the future, any money I make, unless there's something I want or have to buy, the rest will be used to buy servers."