Or simply run dirty energy as a last resort. You don’t need to, and shouldn’t be, dependent on a single energy source.

Yes.

Pretty typical of a new pool to bloom algae when filled. You have to dump a bunch of chlorine or bromine in to prevent it. A competent company that does large pool/ponds would have a plan to deal with it.

1. NREL ESIF Data Center — Golden, Colorado https://maps.google.com/?q=NREL+ESIF+Golden+CO

2. Sandia National Laboratories HPC — Albuquerque, New Mexico https://maps.google.com/?q=Sandia+National+Laboratories+Albuquerque+NM

3. Munters SyCool Deployment (Representative Location) — Phoenix, Arizona https://maps.google.com/?q=Phoenix+AZ

4. Switch SUPERNAP Campus — Las Vegas, Nevada https://maps.google.com/?q=Switch+SUPERNAP+Las+Vegas

5. Equinix SV10 IBX — San Jose, California https://maps.google.com/?q=Equinix+SV10+San+Jose+CA

Agreed, but i would think it’s mostly an upfront cost. Datacenters have massive footprints, the roofs could be covered with heat exchangers, also covered with solar panels. It just takes some regulation to encourage it.

If you want to get really into it, you could figure out a way to reclaim all that heat energy.

Agreed. It’s updating your status to in-office and updating your office room location.

Many hybrid workforces already have software that’s doing this as part of desk hoteling.

If you’re online and not in the office, it’s not updating your location to your home address.

This is useful for coworkers to figure out where they are at so they can sit close. It might not sound like a useful feature at first but consider how large a campus like Microsoft is. Knowing what building and floor someone is at makes it much easier to work together.

Some of the other responses here make it sound like they’ve never signed in with a badge before.

This is using your office network/wifi SSID to set your location status in Teams. It’s not sharing your location when you’re nothing the office.

Also, it’s opt-in.

Researches should publish after 90 days. That would solve the problem.

Most high rises have cooling systems. They run ambient temp water to all of the floors, and tenant hvac units cool their server rooms by pumping heat into that water.

It then goes through the loop and gets cooled back down to ambient with large radiator systems outside.

It’s closed loop.

There’s no reason this can’t be applied to datacenters.

I’m assuming that Canada remains a cool trade buddy.

The US is probably going to hurt the least. Easily defendable, farming that’s insulated from attacks, distributed power, roads, rail, and waterway distribution systems. Additionally the us has oil and can refine it.

I’m not saying the us will be fine.

Chinas problem will be all of the old people that are alive but not contributing and it will be sudden. Their economy is all about making things and pushing it onto other countries. When they can’t do that, either because they don’t have the people, the supply chains are broken, or other counties can’t afford to buy their widgets, their situation looks bleak and immediate.

Japan is better off than you would think but only because they’ve accepted their fate and have pushed much of their manufacturing into other countries where they merely need to supervise and send some of the profits back home.

They also have a capable navy and are naturally resistant to invasion due to their geographic situation.

South Korea is so fucked, but the blast radius won’t be as bad as China. China won’t go down without taking Taiwan (with force or just from economics) and that’s the end of advanced CPUs.

Low birth rates are a global pandemic that will likely cause many countries to fold. China being the first.

Immigration will probably be the only way to get through this ongoing mess.

You can’t. Ww3 will break the supply chain for advanced transistors since it takes 1000’s of diverse inputs to make them. They will simply stop existing. Prices will skyrocket.

A few years later, as age takes out what we have running and things like planes and farm equipment stop working we’ll need to rely on whatever we can source locally.

Sadly this won’t take ww3 to happen as anything can kick off supply chain disruption. The leading cause will be population decline leading to the inability to defend your own boarders. It’s going to be China first. Don’t believe me? look at population trends.

If this happens it’s basically the end of tech advancement unless the US and some allies take over a number of countries to stabilize supply chains.

Treat every advanced tech purchase (cpu, MEM, smartphone) like it’s the last you’ll be able to get.

Oh boy this will be fun if it’s Bass v Raman

Everyone else is buying drones from the current market leader: Ukraine.

Trump doesn’t like their leader.

So we don’t get drones.

Up until this weekend I leaned towards banning datacenters, but now I think we need to figure out how to let them get built. We’re going to be in trouble due to supply chain disruption, geopolitical instability, and population decline around the world and will need as much tech built as possible now.

I hate to tell you this, but 3G was a lie too. 3g should have been good to 100mbps.