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Yeah, this could be great for clustered computing. I only did software for a supercomputer company a while back so maybe there's reasons this wouldn't work, but it seems pretty useful within a rack. It'd probably make people over at !cableporn@lemmy.world sad to see those cables go away though.
I don't really see the advantage over a fibre connection myself.
No wires for line of site. No digging, no runs, no fragile expensive tips, etc. That is if and when it stabilizes as a medium.
You then have a communication system that can be shut down by fog or heavy rain though.
It's slightly less stupid in interior applications, but data centre applications will almost always be better suited to wired.