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Re:Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by... by 15155 on Monday February 23, 2026 @01:07PM (#47126190)
Whoa: is this the only possible form of cooling?

What if there were a cooler that somehow didn't evaporate water, you might even call it a "dry cooler" - that would be a sweet invention. This might even be required in areas where adiabatic cooling isn't effective (humid climates)!

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Re:Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by... by MathMonkeyMan on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @05:26AM (#47135300)
Even if the ambient relative humidity is near 100%, water's latent heat of vaporization is nothing to shake a stick at.

I like the idea of a giant heat pump into the ground, but heat exchangers are expensive and so is digging.

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Re:Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by... by 15155 on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @10:08AM (#47138118)
Nobody is talking about a giant ground-exchange heat pump: liquid-to-air dry coolers exist and are used everywhere. Adiabatic cooling is just cheaper.
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