<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 at 19:35, Sabri Berisha via Outages-discussion <<a href="mailto:outages-discussion@outages.org">outages-discussion@outages.org</a>> wrote:</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,new york,times,serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Our local DC guys told us that this would be a very bad idea as it would be difficult to get uniform air temperature: one area would still be very warm, another area might be too cold (the operating temperature of a lot of gear also has lower limits).<div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">they have a computing facility in the antarctic/south pole, and running it presents many "interesting" problems because the outside air is TOO cold!<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><a href="https://arstechnica.com/features/2012/04/coolest-jobs-in-tech-literally-running-a-south-pole-data-center/">https://arstechnica.com/features/2012/04/coolest-jobs-in-tech-literally-running-a-south-pole-data-center/</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><a href="https://ain.capital/2019/01/15/polar-sysadmin-interview/">https://ain.capital/2019/01/15/polar-sysadmin-interview/</a></div></div></div>