Iced Raktajino@startrek.website to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-219 days agoIs there a practical reason data centers have to sprawl outward instead of upward?message-squaremessage-square34linkfedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up173arrow-down1message-squareIs there a practical reason data centers have to sprawl outward instead of upward?Iced Raktajino@startrek.website to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-219 days agomessage-square34linkfedilinkfile-text
Like, would a skyscraper-style datacenter be practical? Or is just a matter of big, flat buildings being cheaper?
minus-squareIced Raktajino@startrek.websiteOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up54·18 days agoWhich begs the question why not magnets at the top of the building to help pull the electricity up?
minus-squareactionjbone@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up19·edit-218 days agoSolution: construct the buildings upside down, so the foundations are up in the air and the roofs are underground. That way, the electricity will flow down instead of up.
minus-squarejol@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·18 days agoBecause the electricity pulls the magnets down in the same measure, so they meet in the middle. Newton’s 2nd law or something.
minus-squarea_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·18 days agoBecause when it rains poof, no more magnets.
Which begs the question why not magnets at the top of the building to help pull the electricity up?
Because nobody knows how magnets work.
Solution: construct the buildings upside down, so the foundations are up in the air and the roofs are underground. That way, the electricity will flow down instead of up.
Because the electricity pulls the magnets down in the same measure, so they meet in the middle. Newton’s 2nd law or something.
Because when it rains poof, no more magnets.