Iced Raktajino@startrek.website to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-215 hours agoIs there a practical reason data centers have to sprawl outward instead of upward?message-squaremessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up143arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up141arrow-down1message-squareIs there a practical reason data centers have to sprawl outward instead of upward?Iced Raktajino@startrek.website to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-215 hours agomessage-square35fedilinkfile-text
Like, would a skyscraper-style datacenter be practical? Or is just a matter of big, flat buildings being cheaper?
minus-squareshyguyblue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·14 hours agoThere’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!
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!