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Why Greenland's natural resources are nearly impossible to mine

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Re: Why Greenland's natural resources are nearly impossible to mine

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Actually modern datacenters, such as xAI's Memphis one, are now using liquid cooling since the power density of SOTA chips demands it.

That's inevitable, really, given the way power densities have been increasing. I wouldn't be surprised if people weren't also experimenting with high pressure Helium and similar technologies. It's certainly a far cry from opening some windows and stringing a few fans together in the hope that the chilly outside air will be enough to keep things cool!

Before we go down that path, datacenters full of oil tubs seems to be a trend in some spaces. Very good cooling power, low-tech heat extraction (small pumps to make the oil move, car radiators with big simple plumbing... do the trick well).

Re: Why Greenland's natural resources are nearly impossible to mine

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Today I heard some US official going on about how it's ideal for datacenters. Presumably the B200s will be brought in via dogsled. US has absolutely lost the plot

It probably is pretty good for datacenters. You would save a ton on cooling cost. And CO2 footprint as a result. Not that current US cares about that but the rest of the world does. And you don't have to own a country to put datacenters there. Simply investing there will bring jobs and money for the inhabitants, will make profit for the investor, it's a win win. Forcibly taking it over will make a lot of enemies and…

Oddly enough your comment uses the same authoritarian techniques of distract and befuddle the audience.

What a worthless pile of bits you've dumped on the world.

Re: Why Greenland's natural resources are nearly impossible to mine

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The ice comes from the side not from above.

And? So carve out a wider area. The defeatism is palpable in here, some hackers. Why even get out of bed in the morning, right? They extract oil from tar sands in Alberta, for example. Difficult things are done all the time that are costly, as long as the price exceeds the cost. To be clear my post above is not supportive of the administration, but rather the feasibility of mining at high latitudes.

Don't about the resistance bombings! Every time you dig you get to unearth a pile of 22-year-old children

Re: Why Greenland's natural resources are nearly impossible to mine

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post #54

Today I heard some US official going on about how it's ideal for datacenters. Presumably the B200s will be brought in via dogsled. US has absolutely lost the plot

It probably is pretty good for datacenters. You would save a ton on cooling cost. And CO2 footprint as a result. Not that current US cares about that but the rest of the world does. And you don't have to own a country to put datacenters there. Simply investing there will bring jobs and money for the inhabitants, will make profit for the investor, it's a win win. Forcibly taking it over will make a lot of enemies and…

>But Trump just looks at that big map and goes "This will be MINE". Is it really about more than that?

It's about breaking up NATO for Putin.

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