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fc417fc802today at 7:04 AM1 replyview on HN

Continuously dissipating 1 gigawatt of energy by boiling room temperature water would require approximately 1.38 million liters of water per hour.

Seems like the environmentally responsible thing to do be to build the datacenter near the coast and use the waste heat to desalinate water. Or at least dissipate the heat into the ocean rather than boiling off an inland freshwater supply.


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dylan604today at 8:55 AM

And kill the local aquatic life as you raise the temp beyond their happy place?

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