when it goes below zero C outside, moisture content drops to 0%. with enough static pressure to keep the inside air out of the case it would be completely fine.

we had a long-running research project on this very thing at uni, they basically built a data center with no walls and ran it all through the winter. no damage, although they did have to periodically brush the snow off the servers so they didn't get too warm due to airflow restrictions.

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

That sounds likes fascinating project. I Iove it when people do interesting projects instead of taking the low hanging topics like everyone else.

[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

That sounds really interesting. I never thought about it that way before but I guess (dry) snow isn't very conductive.

Are there any articles about or pictures of this project out there anywhere?

[–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 2 weeks ago

i thought there was, but unfortunately the computer society seem to be having issues with their infra at the moment so i can't find anything other than the DC3 blurb on the "systems" page. i remember it being called "dc3" because it was a "data cube"

I know that it started when this video from the university of Helsinki was being passed around in spring of 2013 and we all thought it was hilarious... then during summer break some guys started building a makeshift platform in one of the courtyards.