Iced Raktajino@startrek.website to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-21 month 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-21 month agomessage-square43fedilinkfile-text
Like, would a skyscraper-style datacenter be practical? Or is just a matter of big, flat buildings being cheaper?
minus-squareFaceDeer@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up19·1 month agoBut then the roof has to support the entire weight of planet Earth on top of it, which is a much harder engineering challenge than pumping the electricity in the first place.
minus-squareactionjbone@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 month agoNo, it’s not. It’s all empty space under the foundation. There’s nothing to create crushing force against the building.
minus-square4am@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 month agoYou are failing to account for the weight of the atmosphere on the foundation
minus-squareactionjbone@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 month agoThe atmosphere is just air. Air doesn’t have mass or weight, that’s why it floats.
minus-square4am@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month 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-up3·1 month agoIt can’t be checkmate if the wind has blown over all the pieces.
But then the roof has to support the entire weight of planet Earth on top of it, which is a much harder engineering challenge than pumping the electricity in the first place.
No, it’s not. It’s all empty space under the foundation. There’s nothing to create crushing force against the building.
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.