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minus-squareeleitl@lemmy.mlOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 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-up0·6 months agoClosed loop cooling isn’t that hard, just sone extra plumbing, pumps and fans.
minus-squareeleitl@lemmy.mlOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 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.
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.