alt Hacker NewsYou can have a “closed loop system” but you need to shed heat somewhere and that is either by air cooling drawing tons of electricity, or evaporation that draws tons of water.
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wiml • yesterday at 8:09 PM
From the links in the article, it looks like this DC runs giant heat exchangers to dump the heat to air.
nomel • yesterday at 8:55 PM
> air cooling drawing tons of electricity
Reference? What's the efficiency of the systems like used here?
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I’m pretty sure that “closed loop” in this context would mean that the water is recirculated and not evaporated.