Guess it depends on the height, but yeah. Otherwise, we manage to pump a town’s worth of water to the top of a tower well enough. From there, gravity can do the rest.
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StrongHorseWeakNeigh@piefed.social 4 days ago
Well, data centers require a lot of water for cooling. It’s harder to pump water up high.
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 4 days ago
shyguyblue@lemmy.world 4 days ago
There’s a slow, steady source of water being pumped into those towers, so the water level fluctuates through the day. They use gravity to get high pressure from your tap, but I’m the world of liquid cooling, you gotta go fast!
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s harder to do anything up high. Construction, climate control, transportation (moving something from one end to another), managing fires, additions, evacuation of personnel in an emergency, etc. etc., all get much harder when you build up up versus across.