Iced Raktajino@startrek.website to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-22 days agoIs there a practical reason data centers have to sprawl outward instead of upward?message-squaremessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up176arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up175arrow-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-22 days agomessage-square43fedilinkfile-text
Like, would a skyscraper-style datacenter be practical? Or is just a matter of big, flat buildings being cheaper?
minus-square4am@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 days agoYou are failing to account for the weight of the atmosphere on the foundation
minus-squareactionjbone@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 days agoThe atmosphere is just air. Air doesn’t have mass or weight, that’s why it floats.
minus-square4am@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·14 hours agoNeither does the ground or the continents wouldn’t drift. Subduction is just suboptimal duction. And what flows through ducts? Wind. Checkmate.
minus-squareactionjbone@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·13 hours agoIt can’t be checkmate if the wind has blown over all the pieces.
You are failing to account for the weight of the atmosphere on the foundation
The atmosphere is just air. Air doesn’t have mass or weight, that’s why it floats.
Neither does the ground or the continents wouldn’t drift.
Subduction is just suboptimal duction. And what flows through ducts? Wind. Checkmate.
It can’t be checkmate if the wind has blown over all the pieces.