Studies indicate the technology, which uses low temperatures in the 4-10 kelvin range to enable information to be transmitted with minimal energy loss, could yield one-petaflop systems that use just 25 kW and 100 petaflop systems that operate at 200 kW, including the cryogenic cooler. Compare this to the current greenest system, the L-CSC supercomputer from the GSI Helmholtz Center, which achieved 5.27 gigaflops-per-watt on the most-recent Green500 list. If scaled linearly to an exaflop supercomputing system, it would consume about 190 megawatts (MW), still quite a bit short of DARPA targets, which range from 20MW to 67MW.
ETA: 100 petaflops per 200 kW equals 500 gigaflops per watt, so it’s estimated to be about 100 times more energy efficient.
From the article I linked to:
ETA: 100 petaflops per 200 kW equals 500 gigaflops per watt, so it’s estimated to be about 100 times more energy efficient.
Ok, I guess it depends on how big your computer is, due to the square-cube law. Bigger computers would be at an advantage.