| Data centres in the news on 13:46 - Jun 13 by StokieBlue |
There are options to limit the impact of datacentres, some have been used (albeit sporadically) but there is some scope to do some things.
Cold countries are looking at housing datacentres as their climate can help with cooling and in places like Iceland the power can come from fully renewable geothermal. It's obviously not huge in the grand scheme of things but it could be expanded to other areas, for instance Canada or Alaska could house datacentres within NA.
Another option is submerged datacentres which could be built anywhere and are kept cool by deep water. Microsoft experimented with this previously and I believe the Chinese are building a big one at the moment:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54146718
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There was a conversation on radio 4 just now about them being built, expanded and invested in as part of the economic push by Labour. There was no talk of the environmental impact.
Norway had some issues with energy for some small arms factories last year with data centres using so much energy. they were finding it hard to hit targets I Need to fact-check that one. [Post edited 13 Jun 2024 13:59]
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