> even if you don't buy that it clearly can't be less than O(N^1/3)
Maybe I'm missing something, but why's that?
To the rest of your comment: all good points.
Maybe I'm missing something, but why's that?
To the rest of your comment: all good points.
(This ultimately violates the Bekenstein bound - as your server cube grows it will eventually collapse into a black hole - but this is not really a concern with forseeable technology! More practically, though, Earth's gravity makes it hard to build very high in the air, which limits you to O(N^1/2), and things like cooling and maintenance access probably impose a limit somewhere in between.)