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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•8 months agoClosed loop cooling isn’t that hard, just sone extra plumbing, pumps and fans.
minus-square@[email protected]OPMlinkfedilinkEnglish2•8 months agoIBM does 60 deg C watercooling which can be not a lot of thermal delta in nonarctic environments. It’s a lot of km of infrastructure to vent directly if you want to dissipate a nuclear reactor’s worth of power in a single site.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•8 months agoI don’t see why cold side water temp isn’t near room temperature.
Closed loop cooling isn’t that hard, just sone extra plumbing, pumps and fans.
IBM does 60 deg C watercooling which can be not a lot of thermal delta in nonarctic environments. It’s a lot of km of infrastructure to vent directly if you want to dissipate a nuclear reactor’s worth of power in a single site.
I don’t see why cold side water temp isn’t near room temperature.