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Building on permafrost is actually tricky with just residential levels of heat - houses are sometimes built on stilts in order to avoid melting the ground under
by Dove 2y ago
Building on permafrost is actually tricky with just residential levels of heat - houses are sometimes built on stilts in order to avoid melting the ground under them and making it unstable.
But I like where your head is at. Maybe an offshore platform? Alternatively, there are lots of places that aren't permafrost-cold which are nonetheless quite cool underground year round. I wonder how big a geothermal system would have to be to be an effective heat sink for a data center.
- Dove 2y ago> I wonder how big a geothermal system would have to be to be an effective heat sink for a data center. Ah. 500 feet of pipe per 3.5 kW. That might be why they don't do it that way. XD
- Dove 2y agoOh! Or when they do, it involves a 35 acre lake. https://betterbuildingssolutioncenter.energy.gov/showcase-projects/iron-mountain-data-centers-geothermal-cooling-system https://betterbuildingssolutioncenter.energy.gov/showcase-pr...
- Scoundreller 2y agoOr a 7000 acre reservoir for a nuclear plant: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Texas_Nuclear_Generating_Station https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Texas_Nuclear_Generati...