I see a lot of people.talking about water consumption by data centers.
Big question is whether the water is consumed or just used.
Water is a renewable resource, so you can take it out if a river, run it through a heat exchanger, and return it and the water isnt consumed, it's just used and returned.
It seems that one major way of cooling is evaporative cooling. So the water is evaporated into the air, and eventually will fall as rain, and whether that's consumption becomes really complicated since it depends on local weather patterns and the like.
I do think there's an argument to be made that there's environmental effects from injecting Olympic swimming pools worth of water into the air every month. I would fully expect that to change the local climate.
Rest assured everyone that the parts stolen from a roadside sign that run my social media empire use not a drop of water for cooling!
Big question is whether the water is consumed or just used.
Water is a renewable resource, so you can take it out if a river, run it through a heat exchanger, and return it and the water isnt consumed, it's just used and returned.
It seems that one major way of cooling is evaporative cooling. So the water is evaporated into the air, and eventually will fall as rain, and whether that's consumption becomes really complicated since it depends on local weather patterns and the like.
I do think there's an argument to be made that there's environmental effects from injecting Olympic swimming pools worth of water into the air every month. I would fully expect that to change the local climate.
Rest assured everyone that the parts stolen from a roadside sign that run my social media empire use not a drop of water for cooling!
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