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Re: Cooling?

They'd need a surface area many square miles in size to use nighttime radiative cooling for a big datacenter.

Also I'm not sure how representative this is of uninhabited parts of the state (which probably isn't where Microsoft is building these in any case) but Phoenix's average low is just shy of 30C in midsummer. This isn't one of those deserts that gets down near freezing at night.

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