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 inglor_cz on Thursday June 25, 2026 @06:45AM (#48671593)

For me, it is evidence that our ability to build new power stations has seriously eroded, mostly due to bureaucracy, and that we need to fix this if we want to maintain competitiveness.

Consider the following graph which shows the power generation capabilities of China vs. the US during the last 40 years.

https://www.notboring.co/p/the-electric-slide?utm_source=sub...

The fact that data centers need to resort to gas turbines is downstream from this bureaucratic, NIMBY-driven impotency.

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Re:Nvidia's 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use t... by mukbangpervert on Thursday June 25, 2026 @12:35PM (#48675906)

There is power available in the country. It is not available in arbitrary quantity, to arbitrarily selected buildings, on arbitrarily short timelines.

That said, I agree we need more power generation in this country. Massive rollouts (like in China) would bolster industry while being beneficial to nearly every citizen except those dependent on legacy energy technologies.

Sadly, the party in power opposes the most scalable approaches to this because greatly expanded power generation would hurt margins for a few special interests.

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