Unfortunately, a simple ground source heat pump might have problems keeping up with the kind of heat produced by a large server farm. As the amount of heat builds up underground, the thermal transfer rate slows down.
Some sort of hybrid system would probably be needed to handle this kind of heat.
"Nvidia in court for faulty chip, now Intel making contaminated processors."
What the heck are you talking about? They were using outside air to cool a server rack, not a chip manufacturing plant. That's like saying Ford is selling contaminated trucks because they test drive them in mud.
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