[foxyv]

Abilene is the confluence of three major resources. Massive wind farms that stretch from horizon to horizon, natural gas wells that are constantly having to flare off excess capacity, and a direct freeway connection to both Fort Worth and Dallas. In addition, land is dirt cheap.

I suspect their biggest problem will be water availability so they will need to use some other method for cooling.

[tren_hard]

Maybe they can use the abundant oil for cooling as well :) that is how transformers are cooled

[foxyv]

I was thinking heat pumps hooked up to radiators and/or geo grids. Right now the cheapest method is evaporators which use a ton of water. It's expensive to get rid of a couple megawatts like that. Some data centers have their own microclimates that are 10-20C hotter on average.