Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Everyone is building a big(ger) datacenter. Fine. Let’s use some sense while we are at it.

Everyone is building a big(ger) datacenter. If you are going to build one, you must build it bigger than the one across the fence. Louisiana building a $10 Billion datacenter? Mississippi must build a $15 Billion datacenter. And Texas, well everything is bigger in Texas.

Okay, lots of concrete and steel and copper wiring and here come all those computers. Big money. Many jobs during construction and a few jobs during operation.

And all those computers produce heat.

Let’s use some sense here folks. Pipe that heat to the nearby people to heat their homes in the winter and heat water the rest of the year. Good grief, let’s not build the world’s largest air conditioner. That is nonsense.

And then there is water. Water helps cool the computers. Run the water around in a circle so it cools the computers and then cools itself. Down the drain? Nonsense. Evaporate? Nonsense.

Let’s use some sense. Cost too much? Good grief. How much? Those who use the computing power in these datacenters are the richest companies in the history of the world. They can afford a few pennies here and there.

Let’s use some sense.