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The Fjord-Cooled Data Center

Posted by samzenpus on from the norwegian-blue dept.

1sockchuck writes "A new data center project in Norway plans to use a fjord-powered cooling system, drawing cold water from an adjacent fjord to cool data halls. The fjord provides a ready supply of water at 8 degrees C (46 degrees F), eliminating the need for an energy-hungry chiller. The Green Mountain Data Center joins a small but growing number of data centers are slashing their cooling costs by using the environment as their chiller, tapping nearby lakes, wells and even the Baltic Sea."

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  1. Re:Queue the screams of hysteria by Alien+Being · · Score: 3, Funny

    Won't someone please think of the norwegian blues?

  2. New life to be found by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hydrothermal datacenter vent creatures...

    1. Re:New life to be found by GeneralTurgidson · · Score: 5, Funny

      We call those Interns around here

  3. Hitchhikers Reference by riboch · · Score: 5, Funny

    As long as they do not destroy Slartibartfast's fjords then I am "cool" with it.

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  4. Really Afjordable Option by caffiend666 · · Score: 4, Funny

    We're always looking for more afjordable options for data cooling. As long as they avoid the local pines in their construction. No one wants to be pining for the fjords....

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  5. Strangely by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have been pining for this

  6. Re:Queue the screams of hysteria by swalve · · Score: 3, Funny

    The environmentalists invented by Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh.

  7. Seems expensive. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    How do they afforjd this?

  8. Re:Queue the screams of hysteria by Whiteox · · Score: 5, Funny

    (PS... Want to buy some bütter?)

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  9. Re:Queue the screams of hysteria by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, the Spanish Inquisition doesn't expect you!