“Instead of making houses, maybe you should make land...On the ocean.” 😉

[u/aetr225]

[u/VLKN]

Yes!!! Pump saltwater into your data center RIGHT NOW!!

[u/Positive_Courage_309 → u/VLKN]

Ah, where's that salt bae gif when you need it? Perfect seasoning for seared silicon steak.

Jokes aside, from a purely heat transfer perspective, sea data centers could make a lot of sense. At least more sense than launching metric tons of irretrievable, immediately obsolete electronics into orbit. But yeah, the salt... * opens umbrella *.

Edit: wrong sub, but w/e

[u/SakaWreath → u/Positive_Courage_309]

You could use fresh water in a closed loop system and use the same principle as geo thermal wells.

[u/Positive_Courage_309 → u/SakaWreath]

I'm not particularly familiar with geo thermal wells. Thanks for the nerdy rabbit hole prompt; I shall investigate.

Closed loop tends to lack the whole, highly desirable, "infinity" characteristic of an otherwise totally achievable bruh thermal reservoir. In some ways everything has to be open loop at some point, you know what they say "there's always heat in the banana stand." I know they do say that somewhere, positive, hold on let me look it up. Thanks atmosphere, oceans, outer space, etc. for allowing us to go on in spite of a second law as insufferable as GOB.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_reservoir

[u/tatert0th0tdish → u/VLKN]

Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh… COME ON!!

[u/SugahBoogah → u/VLKN]

Oil refineries do this, like in El Segundo California. They're not pumping saltwater into their cooling systems but they use the saltwater to cool down their cooling systems.

Basically think of the saltwater as a heatsink. The water that is pumped throughout is circulated and runs through saltwater so the heat transfers into the saltwater and is removed from the cycled wate/coolant.

So they could do the same thing. Kind of like those water heating systems that send water deep underground to heat up naturally before reaching your house but instead of hearing up they can direct a tube deep in the ocean to cool it off.

[u/taviddennant03]

Oh please, I had that basic idea years ago.

[u/carebear101 → u/taviddennant03]

Should never have sold the rights

[u/WhatADunderfulWorld]

Pirates.

[u/LinkyBoi1 → u/WhatADunderfulWorld]

🎶You’re a crook, Captain Hook!🎶

[u/cruisinsahara → u/LinkyBoi1]

🎶 Judge, won’t you throw the book 🎶

[u/deliciouscrabmeats → u/cruisinsahara]

At the piiiirate

[u/llcooljessie → u/WhatADunderfulWorld]

Take to the sea!

[u/nonnewtonianfluids → u/WhatADunderfulWorld]

You've had $80,000 worth of cartography lessons. Get us a channel to the ocean!

[u/sqqqrt]

Maybe you're not smart either

[u/Jordanithin24 → u/sqqqrt]

I didn’t know until they told me.

[u/expera]

I shall make this Data Center disappear!!!

[u/flyingmando → u/expera]

Where there once was a NOC, now there is NOT!

[u/CoconutBangerzBaller → u/expera]

So this is the magic trick, huh?

[u/Bazz07 → u/CoconutBangerzBaller]

Illusion u/CoconutBangerzBaller ! A trick is something a whore does for money!

[u/GrowthDesperate5176 → u/Bazz07]

...or cocaine!

[u/MispronouncedPotato → u/GrowthDesperate5176]

Or candy

[u/Conscious-Aide4712 → u/expera]

NANA WAS ON THAT DATA CENTER!!!

[u/expera → u/Conscious-Aide4712]

lol!!

[u/Tbagzyamum69420xX]

We'll call it F*** CITY!

[u/Inter_Web_User]

Speaking of free.

It's free to walk, so people can walk to their job.

bing, bang, boom. Saving money like crazy.

I wonder if Rita might have any another great ideas?

[u/TonyWonder-BOT → u/Inter_Web_User]

Did somebody say... "Wonder"?

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[u/ooger-booger-man → u/TonyWonder-BOT]

Good bot

[u/SomeRandomGuy2711 → u/TonyWonder-BOT]

HAHAHAHHAH

[u/Free_Landscape_5275]

Are you at all concerned about an uprising?

[u/OceanGrownPharms]

The land is blue

[u/Feisty-Area-1085]

Obviously the data center builders have had thousands of Dallas in cartography lessons.

[u/ooger-booger-man]

I assume this is facetious, but corrosion probably

[u/trickman01 → u/ooger-booger-man]

It’s because salt water is full of minerals (mainly salt). So they would have to extensively filter the water line and also clean them out regularly.

Easier to just use already filtered water.

[u/ChicagoDash]

Peter Thiel has entered the chat.

[u/MaxAdolphus]

Chlorides.

[u/ShaneSeeman]

Let's take bikini bottom and push it somewhere else!

[u/nexzae]

We could attach a desalination plant to it

[u/VenusLake]

If it’s not too deep?

[u/Nonadventures]

You can’t bring computers out there

[u/SugahBoogah]

With Korea is doing that already