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minus-square@BreakerSwitch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month agoAnd there’s the issue: you CAN cool them with renewables, but it’s cheaper to just use insane amounts of water.
minus-square@SpaceShort@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoI did not realize you could cool data centers with renewables. Is it done cooling water down a recycling it?
minus-squareiktlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agomost servers in the data centres use air cooling on the CPU/GPU/Drives etc, it blows cool air over the server which heats it up You then have the HVAC systems which cool down the whole data centre They are now moving towards a liquid cooled PC style of cooling where the cooling is built into the rack and doesn’t pull water from the mains https://datacentremagazine.com/articles/microsoft-unveils-zero-water-cooling-for-ai-data-centres There is a lot of attention being paid to make sure we don’t run out of water, but unfortunately that doesn’t generate anxiety clicks
And there’s the issue: you CAN cool them with renewables, but it’s cheaper to just use insane amounts of water.
I did not realize you could cool data centers with renewables. Is it done cooling water down a recycling it?
most servers in the data centres use air cooling on the CPU/GPU/Drives etc, it blows cool air over the server which heats it up
You then have the HVAC systems which cool down the whole data centre
They are now moving towards a liquid cooled PC style of cooling where the cooling is built into the rack and doesn’t pull water from the mains
https://datacentremagazine.com/articles/microsoft-unveils-zero-water-cooling-for-ai-data-centres
There is a lot of attention being paid to make sure we don’t run out of water, but unfortunately that doesn’t generate anxiety clicks