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The Fjord-Cooled Data Center
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."
You're grouping environmentalists all in to one bucket. It doesn't work that way
Funny, it seems to work EXACTLY that way when you turn it around. To "progressives", ALL conservatives are backwards, redneck, bible-thumping, bigoted, homophobic, anti-education, anti-science, anti-choice, "with us or against us", gun-brandishing, moralistic, holier-than-thou, "them thar foreigners took err jerrrbs!", neo-fascist, poor-hating, classist, earth-killing, corporate ass-kissers.
But I understand. It's OK to paint those you don't agree with using the same brush. All that matters is that you feel good about yourself no matter what.
Fjörd != Ocean
Fjörd == Connected to Ocean
Connected to Ocean != Deep ocean
Fjörd == Heatflow bottleneck
Return environmental_study.
He's really very... gentle... and fuzzy. We're becoming fast friends.