Record-breaking temperatures in the last few years shatter the myth that air conditioning alone will keep people safe

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Honestly for more of these industrial server and cloud computing centers they should be buried to take advantage of cooler temperatures and save money on ac.

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Insulation keeps the heat from outside from coming inside, but it’s not much help when you’re generating the heat inside yourself

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Microsoft experimented with putting a datacenter underwater and saw some encouraging results.

https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/sustainability/project-natick-underwater-datacenter/

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