OpenAI's planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco

[rntn]

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/16/openais-planned-data-center-in-abu-dhabi-would-be-bigger-than-monaco/

[ungreased0675]

Where is the power and cooling going to come from? It’s hard to think of a worse climate to put a gigantic data center in.

[kjkjadksj → ungreased0675]

It is a petrostate, energy is cheap.

[clayhacks → ungreased0675]

I mean the other site is in Texas. We also have a lot of data centers in Arizona. I’ve heard the dry air is worth the extra power used for cooling but I’m not an expert