That is true, and I concede that that weakens my point.
It still seems to be the case that you could get a ~35% efficiency increase by operating in e.g. Antarctica. I also have this intuition I’ll need to think more about that there are trade-offs with the Landauer limit that could get substantial gains by separating things that are biologically constrained to be close… similar to how a human with an air conditioner can thrive in much hotter environments (using more energy overall, but not energy that has to be in thermal contact with the brain via e.g. the same circulatory system).
Norway/sweden do happen to be currently popular datacenter building locations, but more for cheap power than cooling from what I understand. The problem with Antarctica would be terrible solar production for much of the year.
That is true, and I concede that that weakens my point.
It still seems to be the case that you could get a ~35% efficiency increase by operating in e.g. Antarctica. I also have this intuition I’ll need to think more about that there are trade-offs with the Landauer limit that could get substantial gains by separating things that are biologically constrained to be close… similar to how a human with an air conditioner can thrive in much hotter environments (using more energy overall, but not energy that has to be in thermal contact with the brain via e.g. the same circulatory system).
Norway/sweden do happen to be currently popular datacenter building locations, but more for cheap power than cooling from what I understand. The problem with Antarctica would be terrible solar production for much of the year.