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40% of a data center's total electricity goes to cooling alone, per McKinsey's own estimate, layered on top of the power draw from the servers themselves. Filecoin distributed storage was never concentrated tightly enough in one site to need that cooling load.
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AI visual note: The image contrasts a traditional, centralized data center (left) requiring extensive cooling towers and power infrastructure with a distributed global network (right) using Filecoin (denoted by the "f" nodes) and AI components across interconnected servers worldwide. This visualization supports the post's argument that Filecoin's geographically distributed storage model avoids the massive cooling energy burden—around 40% of total electricity—needed by concentrated data centers.
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