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Rocket engine technology cools datacenters with liquid CO2

development2026-01-27

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Karman Industries adapted SpaceX rocket engine technology to cool data centers with liquid CO2, cutting space requirements by 80%, while Saudi Arabia pivoted Neom toward becoming a datacenter hub.

Reported metric: -80% space

Reporting date: 2026-01-27 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to January 27, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Cooling, not chips, delays Colossus 2 to May

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Welcome to January 27, 2026

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Rocket engine technology cools datacenters with liquid CO2
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Reporting date: 2026-01-27
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-01-27-rocket-tech-cools-datacenters
Claim: Karman Industries adapted SpaceX rocket engine technology to cool data centers with liquid CO2, cutting space requirements by 80%, while Saudi Arabia pivoted Neom toward becoming a datacenter hub.
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- Welcome to January 27, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-january-27-2026
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