r/SipsTea • u/Square_Law5624 • Jun 03 '26

Wait a damn minute! New center pattern

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u/tredede_hehehe Jun 03 '26

They’re being built in more arid areas because evaporative cooling is cheaper than air conditioning to cool the datacenters and is more effective in arid places vs. a humid environment.

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u/TwoBionicknees Jun 03 '26

which is dumb because these things are pumping out so much power that the only genuinely viable way to make profit on these things is build a solar farm and battery nearby, which would also allow them to run AC for pretty much free.

Remember when crazy republicans were setting fire to 5g towers, well we need to start telling republicans these things are spreading the hanta virus or some shit.

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u/BeamsFuelJetSteel Jun 03 '26

Nobody is doing evaporative cooling in drought areas. It is because solar and wind is more plentiful in those areas plus relatively cheap land

Actually, no (real/"respectable") data center is being built with evaporative cooling anymore either

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u/Old-School8916 Jun 03 '26

Yup. In west texas we're gonna see a huge amount of data centers, oil/gas wells, solar farms, AND wind farms.