You joke, but heat does rise and a tall building would need to make extra concessions for cooling concerns, while also dealing with the issues if weight. Large racks of servers are actually quite heavy, which is why many datacenters in i.e Toronto were built in an ex parking garage
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Pistcow@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Electricity has a hard time flowing up and requires a special pumping system.
phx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Prime@lemmy.sdf.org 18 hours ago
Heat is no issue of relevance for the question. The rising effect it negligible compared to what has to be transported anyway
phx@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
How many high-rise libraries do you see? Weight is absolutely a factor in data center design, as is airflow/heat
Successful_Try543@feddit.org 1 day ago
Unironically, I’ve had people telling me they save electric energy by inserting the angled Schuko plugs of their electric devices ‘upwards’.
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 1 day ago
Which begs the question why not magnets at the top of the building to help pull the electricity up?
Triumph@fedia.io 1 day ago
Because nobody knows how magnets work.
actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Solution: instruct the buildings upside down, so the foundations are up in the air and the roofs are underground. That way, the electricity will flow down instead of up.
FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 day ago
But then the roof has to support the entire weight of planet Earth on top of it, which is a much harder engineering challenge than pumping the electricity in the first place.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Because when it rains poof, no more magnets.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Because the electricity pulls the magnets down in the same measure, so they meet in the middle. Newton’s 2nd law or something.