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Not to mention heat management.
by imdsm 7y ago
Not to mention heat management.
- minikites 7y agoThere are plenty of data centers and related infrastructure in warm places outside of Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Wilshire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Wilshire
- wutbrodo 7y agoHow hot do you think DTLA gets with regularity? People don't consider LA to have among the best weather in the world because it's hot, they do so because it's temperate. The record temperatures for the hottest months are well up there, but the averages are pretty comfortable. Obviously data centers have different senses of "comfortable temperatures" than humans do, but the challenge is proportionally larger when temperatures are much higher. That being said, I'm not sure the GP complaint is that significant. Africa is a BIG continent, and data centers locations would obviously be chosen in areas that are relatively more temperate.
- lotsofpulp 7y agoHumidity is a bigger factor than temperature. 90 degrees on the west coast is nice because it's not humid, 90 degrees in Southeast USA is unbearable because it's 90% humidity. https://www.weather.gov/safety/heat-index https://www.weather.gov/safety/heat-index
- minikites 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Los_Angeles#Summer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Los_Angeles#Summer >However, temperatures across the region often exceed 90 °F (32 °C) during the summer. This happens when an atmospheric high-pressure area becomes dominant over the Great Basin of Nevada and Utah (a frequent occurrence), and the resulting offshore flow of the atmospheric air mass shuts off the normal coastal sea breeze in Los Angeles.