okay IQfy. explain to me why we are not using Antarctica as a huge heat sink?
give me one reason why we are not building huge GPU farms there? or in general, running any machines that generate heat there.
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Because of the tunnels
The less people going to Antarctica in general, the better
which tunnels? I want to build a GPU farm there
The spiders will destroy anything you put in the tunnels
oh, you are talking about the /x/ creepypasta. kek
frick the spiders. I will bring raid with me
>I will bring raid with me
Raid 0, 1, 3 or 6?
You can't buy thermal paste in antartica
you don't need it 🙂
that's not for you to decide you commie
Cities like Miami and New York would be flooded by the rising sea levels
great.
they can move to antarctica and settle in the land that was cleared from the ice. it will be warm from all the heat radiating from the GPUs and machinery
Holy shit.
I'm high but you legitimately just solved global warming.
Holy shit.
Rightoids told us that they can just sell their homes and move somewhere else
They're right
because there are better chemicals than ice to cool things down you idiot
too expensive
tell me how expensive it is to build a GPU farm in the most hostile place on earth compared to spending money on liquid cooling.
go to argentina and ride a boat there in summer. the temperature can be as high as 18C in some areas. it's less hostile than some places in russia or canada
Argie here, unironically there was a company (IIRC from Canada) that sort of did this, during the crypto craze, they built a huge Bitcoin farm on Tierra del Fuego province (the big island at the bottom of South America), both to take advantage of the cold climate and the huge subsidies on electricity we had at the time. Just mining the shit out of those bitcoins courtesy of the argie taxpayer. That gravy train has ended though, since they are bringing our electricity bills closer to international prices, but I bet they made a killing while it lasted.
So OP's idea is not that stupid.
Found the article
https://www-cronicasfueguinas-com.translate.goog/2021/04/instalarian-en-tdf-el-mayor-centro.html?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Because I haven't figured out how to reach it yet. Can't just buy a plane ticket there.
Costs are prohibitively high.
There are places in Northern Europe and North America that are just as cold and more easily accessible.
yes but there is probably a lot of legal hoops you have to go through since you are in another country.
antarctica is still mostly unclaimed. and the most of the claims are just larp. no one will bother attacking a group of autists maintaining a GPU farm in Antarctica.
american glowBlack folk would do it for fun
>no one will bother attacking a group of autists maintaining a GPU farm in Antarctica.
Yeah, they will.
But, most importantly, that group of autists isn't going to be able to provide all the infrastructure needed to support it.
>antarctica is still mostly unclaimed
No. It's all claimed by at least one country. Some parts by several. By treaty, there's no economic exploitation going on down there, so no need for anyone to fight over it.
Putting a server farm there will probably start a war.
>is still mostly unclaimed. and the most of the claims are just larp.
>no one will bother attacking a group of autists
Tell that to the redditors that built a man-made island just outside of Thailand because the area was "unclaimed". Putting people and resources in an area that is not protected by any country or treaty means that anyone can frick you up without fear of consequences.
Yeah, you try building anything on the "unclaimed" bit and see how long it takes someone to kick your teeth in.
it's closed off during winter, which is bad in case you need to fly shit in
Antarctica is lame any nobody lives there except nerds
Put your mega data center in Mid/Northern Hokkaido, Japan
That'll do it
Because of israelites
Next question
Why don't you just build a liquid cooled computer and use antifreeze?
Frick that, just use a vacuum cleaner with a really long hose to your house and suck the cold over your way, then the exhaust from the vacuum will be ice cold like your beers and can be plumbed to the air intake of your PC. Easy as pie. Bonus points if the air coming from your pc only adds a temp rise of 20C, because then the -40C air coming in only gains 20C hence you have -20C air coming from the PC which would be slick in the summer since it's like free aircon.
homie if Antarctica melts we're all going to drown.
microsoft is already running azure underwater