[HN Gopher] Data centers are melting in U.K. heat wave
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       Data centers are melting in U.K. heat wave
        
       Author : fariszr
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2022-07-19 21:00 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | jaskyle wrote:
       | Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical
       | and use energy sustainably:
       | https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/project-natick...
        
         | hindsightbias wrote:
         | What about the plankton impact?
        
       | nathanyz wrote:
       | It seems odd that the data centers would run on such tight max
       | external temperature limits to where this causes such an issue. I
       | am probably missing something though, anyone have insight into
       | what is causing them to fall over so easily with these heatwaves?
        
       | montalbano wrote:
       | Before technically correct comments attack the use of the word
       | 'melting' here, as in the runway threads, please give the
       | journalist a bit of slack here for using it in the title.
       | 
       | The key part about this is the consistent theme of the day that
       | many parts of UK infrastructure, both public and private, were
       | not engineered to withstand 40 degree Celsius.
        
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