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In that case, could you put them in Minneapolis and run them in like January?
I used to live there, and during the winters it can get brutal. During one of those polar vortexes is the first time I ever saw an air temperature of negative 50 with a wind chill of negative 70.
You could put them in Canada way the fuck up north (good luck connecting them) right next to almost unlimited hydro power and it would still be silly.
Keep in mind heating of this magnitude is going to be bad in any place it is put. The fact they seem to put them in places like this tells me they don't care about these centers actually working efficiently, just that they exist for an investor report.
Power is more expensive than water. So they use evaporative cooling in an arid climate.
As a bonus, solar should be plentiful there so the price they end up paying for electricity from the grid might be cheaper too?
Eh, Minneapolis gets cold, but it doesn't quite get that cold. The record low was -34 degrees F (-37C). We do regularly hit -20F, but we haven't hit -30 since 1996.
Nitpicking aside, I agree that the winters can get brutal.
I remember it got cold enough during that winter polar vortex thing that the power company was asking people to keep their homes at like 60 so that we didn't overload the power grid and gas pressure. I want to say that was like 2016 or something when I used to live there.
Did you live in Minneapolis or a suburb?
Winter of 2013-2014 was pretty brutal. I'm not sure about 16-17 though.
Weak ass infrastructure. I live in an area that gets to be -50 (C but at that point does not really matter) almost every year and don't have those sort of issues. (well yet as we seem to be poisoned by your stupid us thinking of cut every corner)
Nah we dont want them either. I don't want my electricity prices to skyrocket more than they already have.
Yeah, fair enough.