SANDPUTER: An Integrated Desert-Native Computing Architecture Combining Crystalline Substrate Processors, In-Situ Sand-Based Thermal Management, and Persian-Derived Passive Cooling Infrastructure

SANDPUTER introduces a groundbreaking, closed-loop distributed computing architecture tailored for arid environments, leveraging local silicon dioxide substrates for semiconductor fabrication, thermal management, and waste heat recovery. This integrated system combines crystalline spherical processors with Persian-derived passive cooling techniques—such as qanat channels, badgir windcatchers, and yakhchal cold storage—to create a geographically-integrated solution. While individual components are based on existing technologies, the novelty lies in their synergistic combination, offering significant advantages: eliminating geographic decoupling penalties associated with semiconductor manufacturing, reducing data center water consumption by 91-98%, achieving power usage effectiveness (PUE) comparable to immersion cooling, and enabling waste heat recovery at high temperatures. Designed for deployment in Middle Eastern and North African regions—where data center capacity is projected to grow substantially—SANDPUTER represents a defensive publication under CC-BY-SA 4.0 to safeguard this concept in the global commons.

Saeid, G. (2026). SANDPUTER: An Integrated Desert-Native Computing Architecture Combining Crystalline Substrate Processors, In-Situ Sand-Based Thermal Management, and Persian-Derived Passive Cooling Infrastructure. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.21233673