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Avamander on Oct 18, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: We moved our servers to Iceland

Thinner air makes it more difficult to effectively cool, even with cooler air. I've even seen things have an "High altitude mode" that make the fan spin harder.

WaltPurvis on Oct 18, 2019 [–]

Good point. I wonder if you could pressurize the data center and offset this effect?

perl4ever on Oct 19, 2019 | [–]

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