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-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.
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.