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packman

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2. Water-cooled computers

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Sat Mar 22, 2014, 10:20 AM

Mar 2014

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Don't tell me you don't have one of these. Great for cooling off the over-taxed video card and processors.

If NSA depends on this type of tech (and we'll never know if they do or don't) to cool those super computers then I can see why they would want to keep it quiet.
Doubt if they do though, probably use other ways to cool them. These would "leak" too much for them to trust them.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2028293/liquid-cooling-vs-traditional-cooling-what-you-need-to-know.html

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Why Does the NSA Want to Keep Its Water Usage a Secret? [View all] unhappycamper Mar 2014 OP

it's valuable metadata alc Mar 2014 #1

So the NSA has concentrated a big chunk of its computing power... Jerry442 Mar 2014 #3

Joe Biden agrees with you..... or he used to. bvar22 Mar 2014 #7

Water-cooled computers packman Mar 2014 #2

Data centers need cooling. But not like that. Thor_MN Mar 2014 #4

Oh, poop packman Mar 2014 #6

so why are they in Utah? oldandhappy Mar 2014 #5