lit your fires, ice age is coming

[shubla]

It looks really white and icey, doesnt it? And they said that it is going to get even colder!
We must evacuate devs to some warm place, such as nigeria, or else their computers will freeze and stop working!

[sinko]

its not like they do anything normally


are you excited for the new bird patch tonight?

[MagicManICT]

their computers will freeze and stop working!

Depends on the processors used. Cold weather isn't necessarily good on moving parts, but super-cooling CPUs and such can make for pushing way more electrons through silicon than one could at standard room temperature. It would certainly make it much cheaper to run data centers, as then you'd only need to pump outside air in and dry it to a reasonable point instead of cooling the massive thermal wattage of a standard server configuration...

Actually, now that I think on the problem, you'd probably have to add moisture to keep the static electricity levels down, as super-cooled air holds little to no moisture, so when it is warmed even just slightly, it goes from a relative humidity of around 70-80% down to under 50% or less. You really want to keep it at around 70% in a data center for electronics anti-static safety procedures IIRC.