| ▲ | weberer 44 minutes ago |
| >in a climate where passive-cooling isn't viable Chips can also be water cooled, and Texas borders an endless supply of water in the Gulf of America. |
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| ▲ | prpl 30 minutes ago | parent [-] |
| Are you being serious or sarcastic? |
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| ▲ | weberer 15 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Completely serious. Sea water cooling for data centers is already in use here in Helsinki. And water temperature in the Gulf of America doesn't seem to go above 30 C even in the summer. https://news.ftcpublications.com/core/coastal-cities-test-se... https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/regsatprod/gom/sst_map.php | | |
| ▲ | verdverm 10 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Sea water would have to be piped to places like Dallas, whereas much of Finland's people/data centers are closer to the shoreline. A solution that works in certain places does not generally work everywhere. | | |
| ▲ | weberer 3 minutes ago | parent [-] | | There's no need to build them in Dallas. Just keep them near the shoreline. The only reason you have so many data centers in North Jersey is so high frequency traders can make their calls 0.02ms before their competitors on the NYSE. For an average user, the 1ms ping between Dallas and Corpus Christi is not a problem. |
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