45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero

Post by dgoldstein0 » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 10:08 PM UTC

thewebguyd wrote: post #39

wolvoleo wrote: post #34

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It depends a lot on things like geology and some people are a lot more sensitive. It is really an issue. I don't have any datacenters near me but I can hear some heavy hums from the washing machine 3 floors up when it put my head on my pillow, for some reason it just propagates through the building physically. When I walk around I don't hear it. Datacenter noise can be the same. IMO they should be put away from habit…

> IMO they should be put away from habitation, there's no reason for them to be near there anyway I agree, but that's a hard problem (in the US anyway). Unless you're plopping data centers in the middle of national parks, or in the middle of the desert where water is going to be a problem, you are nearly always going to be within some small mile radius of civilization. Plus the cost of trenching new fiber out in the…

Post by kayo_20211030 » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 10:13 PM UTC

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I lived in Munich many years ago, but if the temperature ever went to the high thirties for more than a day we'd expect the end of the world :-)

Speaking from a UK perspective global warming is now noticeable, hot days are hotter and there's more likely to be a heat wave, and that's changed in the last decade. I assume Germany is the same, many years ago really is different to today.

Post by signatoremo » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 10:26 PM UTC

dgellow wrote: post #26

mchusma wrote: post #22

This is also the type of thing that makes space based data centers more viable. I was previously more skeptical on the concept but have come around. I do think ground based centers will have better economics when they can be built though, and this addresses noise and water complaints which are the big 2 regional complaints. It seems like lots of bottlenecks are getting solved quickly, except for maybe memory.

How does that change the calculus for space datacenters? There is still no reasons or benefits to having them in space. You still have to rely solely on radiative cooling. That doesn’t solve any of the maintenance problems. Space datacenters is a really dumb and unrealistic idea Musk is talking about to hype his companies, it’s not meant to actually be done. Anything in space is more expensive and way harder to do, f…

Post by energy123 » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 10:28 PM UTC

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Do you live near a datacenter? Property value goes down, constant humming.. the way we heat up the earth right now, i don't think you have to worry about heating

>Do you live near a datacenter? Property value goes down, constant humming I don't live next to one but I'd take constant humming over the constant stop/go traffic noise, honking, squeaky brakes, slamming doors and revving engines I now have on my western side of the apartment, thanks to the unemployment office the city opened on my street not too long ago. So how come constant humming is somehow an illegal nuisance,…

Post by joe_mamba » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 10:31 PM UTC

energy123 wrote: post #67

joe_mamba wrote: post #53

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>Do you live near a datacenter? Property value goes down, constant humming I don't live next to one but I'd take constant humming over the constant stop/go traffic noise, honking, squeaky brakes, slamming doors and revving engines I now have on my western side of the apartment, thanks to the unemployment office the city opened on my street not too long ago. So how come constant humming is somehow an illegal nuisance,…

More noise categories should be illegal or fined in dense areas, not less