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Oil rigs seem a smarter move. You can piggy back on their enormous investment, and use water cooling.



oil rig would be perfect, position it over one of the cold currents than make up the global "conveyor belt" heat transport system, and enjoy limitless water @3~4°c to cool any sized data cluster.....position it just right, and the rig can just tap into a natural gas resevoir and use that to power the data cluster, pumps, stuff, whatever, stick some giant wind turbines out there, paint them yellow, make everybody happy


I wonder why they don't do that? Maybe the square footage is terrifically expensive.




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