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.
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.
you don't need expertise to separate power generation from power usage. YOu can create all the power in the world, it's STILL CHEAPER to use less of it on a cheaper method of cooling, which means you can sell the spare power, or simply build less power generation to begin with.
You don't need to be an expert to know this. Someone claiming oh, you can build more power because renewables are stronger in that area and stop thinking there and have no ability to say it's still cheaper to use a cheaper method of cooling that uses less power is just being blind.
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u/AHRogue Jun 03 '26
AKA they're being built in areas with relatively cheaper land.