Like, would a skyscraper-style datacenter be practical? Or is just a matter of big, flat buildings being cheaper?

  • Iced Raktajino@startrek.websiteOP
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    Guess it depends on the height, but yeah. Otherwise, we manage to pump a town’s worth of water to the top of a tower well enough. From there, gravity can do the rest.

    But there’s probably a point where cost for that vs height becomes prohibitive.

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      There’s a slow, steady source of water being pumped into those towers, so the water level fluctuates through the day. They use gravity to get high pressure from your tap, but I’m the world of liquid cooling, you gotta go fast!