Can Geothermal Cooling Tame Data Centers’ Energy Appetite?

CleanTechnica
By Michael BarnardMar 28, 2025, 2:42 pm754 ptsHotTop
The world is increasingly run by data centers — huge, anonymous buildings that gobble up electricity and belch heat like angry dragons. Each click, stream, or swipe piles up more data in racks upon racks of humming servers. Yet few people realize just how thirsty these data dragons really are. ... [continued]…

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