eleitl@lemmy.mlM to Collapse@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months agoThe surging demand for data is guzzling Virginia’s watergrist.orgexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up128
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minus-squareeleitl@lemmy.mlOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoNotice you have to cool both in the power plant and the DC. And these DCs run up to a GW or more.
minus-squareinterdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoClosed loop cooling isn’t that hard, just sone extra plumbing, pumps and fans.
minus-squareeleitl@lemmy.mlOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoIBM does 60 deg C watercooling which can be not a lot of thermal delta in nonarctic environments. It’s a lot of km of infrastructure to vent directly if you want to dissipate a nuclear reactor’s worth of power in a single site.
minus-squareinterdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoI don’t see why cold side water temp isn’t near room temperature.
Notice you have to cool both in the power plant and the DC. And these DCs run up to a GW or more.
Closed loop cooling isn’t that hard, just sone extra plumbing, pumps and fans.
IBM does 60 deg C watercooling which can be not a lot of thermal delta in nonarctic environments. It’s a lot of km of infrastructure to vent directly if you want to dissipate a nuclear reactor’s worth of power in a single site.
I don’t see why cold side water temp isn’t near room temperature.