Brad Macpherson on Nostr: That would be the reasonable and sane way to build datacentres; making use of "waste" ...

That would be the reasonable and sane way to build datacentres; making use of "waste" heat in district heating for example. It's cheaper (financially) though to just evaporate the water and pretend that there's an endless supply.

About the only scenario I can imagine for this to be viable at scale would be photovoltaic-powered datacentres on former oil rigs using seawater to cool the machines.