Nvidia's 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero

Re:Nvidia's 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use t... by CamperBob2 on Thursday June 25, 2026 @12:45AM (#48669015)

If they can be deployed in low-earth orbit with nobody working on them, they can be deployed 20 miles east of Bumfuck, Nebraska with nobody working on them.

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Re:Nvidia's 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use t... by cameron_b on Thursday June 25, 2026 @09:08AM (#48672774)

The physical threat model of the Nebraska option does not rely on the tyranny of the rocket to keep intruders away.

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Re:Nvidia's 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use t... by CamperBob2 on Thursday June 25, 2026 @10:39PM (#48681748)

The point is that if you don't put them in the middle of somebody's neighborhood, nobody will care to attack them.

The idea of building robust, lightly-staffed technical facilities in obscure places all over the country is nothing even remotely new. It's how the long-distance telephone network was constructed and successfully operated in the decades before satellites took over: https://telephoneworld.org/long-distance-companies/att-long-...

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