Iced Raktajino@startrek.website to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-222 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-222 days agomessage-square34linkfedilinkfile-text
Like, would a skyscraper-style datacenter be practical? Or is just a matter of big, flat buildings being cheaper?
minus-squareactionjbone@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up19·edit-221 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.
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.