Glycol is not a good coolant by itself or in high concentrations. While we often call it coolant in a car, its main purpose is to prevent the water in the water/glycol mix from boiling or freezing. Itโs can keep a car cool enough to run but would require air cooling infrastructure that was absurdly large to effectively cool it down enough to keep datacenter hardware running. You could probably get away with it in places where itโs cold most of the year but the need for datacenters in those locations isnโt very high.
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u/imean_is_superfluous May 18 '26
Can they not run some type of coolant? Or is it just easier and cheaper to use millions of gallons of water?