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Please google "datacenter evaporative cooling" and then re-evaluate

• 15155 8mo ago
  Whoa: is this the only possible form of cooling? What if there were a cooler that somehow didn't evaporate water, you might even call it a "dry cooler" - that would be a sweet invention. This might even be required in areas where adiabatic cooling isn't effective (humid climates)!
  • MathMonkeyMan 8mo ago
    Even if the ambient relative humidity is near 100%, water's latent heat of vaporization is nothing to shake a stick at. I like the idea of a giant heat pump into the ground, but heat exchangers are expensive and so is digging.
    • 15155 8mo ago
      Nobody is talking about a giant ground-exchange heat pump: liquid-to-air dry coolers exist and are used everywhere. Adiabatic cooling is just cheaper.