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Re:Britain has wasted £1,112,293,718 switching off wind turb... by api on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @08:50AM (#45591636)
Chilly is good. A lot of DC power is cooling.

I don’t know why Northern Canada is not full of data centers. There’s untapped hydroelectric potential up there as well as free cooling.

If Russia wasn’t a basketcase politically Siberia would be great too.

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Re:Britain has wasted £1,112,293,718 switching off wind turb... by bee_rider on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @09:47AM (#45592494)
Agreed! That was what I meant, sorry for any ambiguity.
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Re:Britain has wasted £1,112,293,718 switching off wind turb... by blitzar on Thursday October 16, 2025 @04:09AM (#45602714)
Plumb in some district heating and everyone wins.
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