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re: Could the data center boom revive the rooftop solar industry?
Posted on 5/14/26 at 6:49 pm to jp4lsu
Posted on 5/14/26 at 6:49 pm to jp4lsu
I don't know how you get cooling towers into a closed loop system. I suppose you could drill a few thousand holes in the ground, run the heated water through thousands of piping loops in these holes packed with sand and gravel. Maybe the Earth and miles of piping can perform enough heat transfer to the earth to cool the water enough to go back into the building to collect more heat. I doubt it or the big factories would be doing it. The cost savings in cooling water makeup alone would not be insignificant
Do you know of any large factories that use a closed loop cooling system? Could it possibly be scalled up for the magnidata centers. centers.
Do you know of any large factories that use a closed loop cooling system? Could it possibly be scalled up for the magnidata centers. centers.
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Posted on 5/14/26 at 7:21 pm to notsince98
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It absolutely will. Once a company captures 70% of the AI market and the race is over, the data center industry will implode over night.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 3:01 am to Squirrelmeister
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Doubtful based on your comments
What comments? Either way it is true.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 3:06 am to jp4lsu
Many data centers I have looked at are using the treated sewage effluent to cool their systems rather than discharging them to waterways. this could have other downstream impact, but nobody has ever argued for access to treated sewage.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 3:13 am to 10thyrsr
this is not to mention many of the lakes across Texas and Louisiana that were created as "cooling" lakes for power generation that many of you boys grew up fishing in. This can be done correctly.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 6:24 am to Powerman
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The logic behind it seems pretty simple. And it could help stabilize the grid if enough people make the move.
You don’t understand the issue if you believe this. Solar destabilizes grids due to its intermittency. Every country that leans into solar ends up with this problem. If battery tech advances enough then there is a better future for solar, though.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 6:30 am to Powerman
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I think the data center craze is going to collapse with the AI bubble, me.
It's possible.
Almost everything is possible, but I consider this extraordinarily unlikely. The demand (from paying customers) is insatiable, and the productivity gains from it are tangible and already happening. How in the world could this be a bubble?
AI (and robotics) is going to radically change the world, and data centers are part of that process. To those who say data centers are outdated before they are completed, ask yourselves what has happened to the data centers that were made outdated by the current generation? They are loaded down and making money. These will be too.
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