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I guess the answer is regions. If they built all their DCs in Washington there wouldn't be any DCs in south middle area of US. And since temperatures are largel
by dubcanada 3y ago
I guess the answer is regions. If they built all their DCs in Washington there wouldn't be any DCs in south middle area of US. And since temperatures are largely based on proximity to the equator, it would mean zero DCs near the equator.
But I really don't know what the article is implying. We should built zero DCs anywhere hot? Or DCs use lots of resources, like water and power which are in short supply in deserts?
- konschubert 3y agoDeserts are great for power since you have space and sun for Solar
- jononomo 3y agoIf you go near the equator but go up in altitude then it won't be hot. There are places in Costa Rica and Columbia where it is basically 72-degrees every day all year.
- cannonpalms 3y agoI wonder what impact cosmic radiation has at those altitudes. I seem to recall experiments somewhere in Colorado that demonstrated a need for ECC, etc.
- dubcanada 3y agoTrue, but wouldn't water be harder to get? From my understanding tops of mountains would have significantly less water reserves than valleys. Although they may have more then deserts...
- jononomo 3y agoWell, Costa Rica has a long rainy season with torrential downpours. In fact, they have so much hydropower that they are a net energy exporter. Here is a paragraph I found at https://www.hydropower.org/country-profiles/costa-rica https://www.hydropower.org/country-profiles/costa-rica: > Costa Rica has a notable geographic advantage in that its concentration per capita of rivers, dams and volcanoes allow for high levels of renewable energy production. This abundance of natural resources and favourable rainfall levels are beneficial for great amounts of hydropower generation. Long story short: lot's of rainfall and lots of mountains means lots of water flowing downhill.