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In a data center, for every watt the drive consumes, you also have to pay to pump a watt of heat out of the building. I don't know what the numbers are like for
by wiml 3y ago
In a data center, for every watt the drive consumes, you also have to pay to pump a watt of heat out of the building. I don't know what the numbers are like for a modern DC but cooling can be pretty expensive in terms of energy and equipment.
- interestica 3y agoCanada should install data centres in the north. Data pipelines instead of oil?
- adgjlsfhk1 3y agoThere are a lot of datacenters in Iceland because it's cold and has cheap geothermal power.
- justsomehnguy 3y agoPeople want to have < 20ms latencies[0] and DCs needs many power, so you can't move DCs way further than where they are already[1] [0] Well, actually most people don't give a fuck but Google would bitch what your site isn't shown in an instant (even if there only 1 page) and would degrade your ranking shrug_emoji [1]] https://www.datacenters.com/locations/canada?map=true&query=canada&withProducts=false&showHidden=false&radius=0&bounds=&circleBounds=&polygonPath= https://www.datacenters.com/locations/canada?map=true&query=...