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

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verdverm 37 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.

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weberer 30 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.

	▲	verdverm 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		They are many already planned/under construction/built/expanding, there are also wildfires and hurricanes to consider. Its easy to offer hypothetical solutions for a far when details are amis. It's another thing to deal with local politics