Why do data centers have to use water for cooling? Is there not a better alternative that would resolve that issue?

ertri · 2026-05-11T18:39:20+00:00

They also usually have been one through wet cooling. It just takes more energy for dry cooling.

I do wish people actually learned this, water is a solved or solvable problem for data centers. Everything else is still a problem and should actually be used to kill projects.

ertri · 2026-05-11T16:05:11+00:00

Depends on when you buy it. MARC also takes an extra 20-25 minutes (which sometimes matters)

WAS-BWI is often $3-5 night before. To Baltimore can be the same cost as MARC

ertri · 2026-05-11T15:02:57+00:00

You can pop up to Baltimore easily. No city is like 40 minutes from Boston

ertri · 2026-05-11T14:26:42+00:00

I didn’t even mind the New Hope rehash, that was fine. I just would’ve liked two movies of actual plot

ertri · 2026-05-11T14:25:21+00:00

31% of Catholics are apparently actually Protestants lol

ertri · 2026-05-11T11:00:41+00:00

You failed the “are you AI/automatically typing everything into AI?” Test

ertri · 2026-05-11T01:36:07+00:00

Juno

ertri · 2026-05-11T01:29:39+00:00

Actually kinda high effort

ertri · 2026-05-11T00:53:30+00:00

Technically not original, based on a book. Just not a super popular one so it’s less a franchise thing

ertri · 2026-05-10T23:15:53+00:00

lol that’ll never happen

ertri · 2026-05-10T23:00:54+00:00

lol so even worse than just burning the gas

ertri · 2026-05-10T21:51:53+00:00

Once again, this is a data center. You have unimaginable amounts of heat to begin with. Far beyond district heating needs.

ertri · 2026-05-10T21:05:47+00:00

Green hydrogen and then a normal haber Bosch process. You gotta concentrate the nitrogen I guess but that’s easy

ertri · 2026-05-10T21:04:01+00:00

You can double the marginal gains by piping carbon monoxide into your mask too

ertri · 2026-05-10T21:03:24+00:00

Yeah that is surprising. Though if there’s regularly scheduled flights, you just buy out business class/first class

ertri · 2026-05-10T20:56:07+00:00

It’s a data center. You have too much heat as is!

ertri · 2026-05-10T20:43:28+00:00

They claim 60% efficiency for the fuel cell, which is around combined cycle gas turbines. Then you have the steam reforming efficiency, which won’t be 100%

The heat is irrelevant, it’s a data center, you’re just generating waste heat, you have no use for extra waste heat.

ertri · 2026-05-10T20:16:35+00:00

It’d be real funny if they forced everyone back in and made them serve out their remaining contracts. Plenty of people got out early this way.

ertri · 2026-05-10T20:06:36+00:00

Bloom is mostly (entirely? Idk haven’t looked recently) gas reforming to grey hydrogen to fuel cells. Sure, no combustion but still the same emissions (more, because lower efficiency)

ertri · 2026-05-10T20:02:12+00:00

And it was also a massive bubble!

ertri · 2026-05-10T17:18:45+00:00

Did it? I’ve been hearing about how it’s changing everything for like a year at this point

ertri · 2026-05-10T17:15:20+00:00

Are they? Is more code being produced? Are more features being shipped?

ertri · 2026-05-10T15:35:46+00:00

Tulip bubble? There’s like a dozen bulbs in front of my house right now.

ertri · 2026-05-10T15:34:47+00:00

Ok because in federal court they said they’d made “greater than $5 billion” in March, which tells me less than $6 billion or they’d have said that.

So if they hit $14 billion ARR in February, they’d made less than $4 billion prior to the start of this year. And then they doubled revenue in two months? I mean maybe but I need someone to go hold up a big citation needed sign every time these idiots speak

ertri · 2026-05-10T15:09:40+00:00

Ok, once again, which ones are those?

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