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Originally Posted by hadden
The best cooling for machinery is the arctic wind.
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I don't know about the wind, but here is sea water used (not in Norway).
"The facility is one of the most advanced and efficient data centers in the Google fleet. Our high-tech cooling system, which uses sea water from the Bay of Finland, reduces energy use and is the first of its kind anywhere in the world. "
Although not the only reason, I bet that the energy infrastructure plays big part in Norway too.
" Why did Google choose Hamina?
Hamina has the right combination of energy infrastructure, developable land and available workforce for the data center. We had the unique opportunity to salvage an old paper mill in Hamina and use the pre-existing infrastructure to build a data center there. "
https://www.google.com/about/datacen...ations/hamina/