I keep seeing how datacenters are consuming all the water…but it’s for cooling purposes…they can’t hoard all that water indefinitely, it’s a heat sink. Once it’s performed its cooling job, where does the heated water go? Evaporated into the atmosphere? Re-injected to the ground or river?
All of the above, with there being a pretty wide variety of cooling designs in use. Most of the data center cooling water needs are actually in the power plants that supply them.
When I looked up how the water in Colorado was divvied up, 90% was going to agriculture. Industrial was at 3%, municipal at 7%.
Data centers would make up part of that 3%, I assume, so they have a ways to go…not that I’m a fan, but it would make sense to have a sense of the actual data.
Data centers will dehydrate us and all the land. Cows don’t stand a chance.
I keep seeing how datacenters are consuming all the water…but it’s for cooling purposes…they can’t hoard all that water indefinitely, it’s a heat sink. Once it’s performed its cooling job, where does the heated water go? Evaporated into the atmosphere? Re-injected to the ground or river?
All of the above, with there being a pretty wide variety of cooling designs in use. Most of the data center cooling water needs are actually in the power plants that supply them.
When I looked up how the water in Colorado was divvied up, 90% was going to agriculture. Industrial was at 3%, municipal at 7%.
Data centers would make up part of that 3%, I assume, so they have a ways to go…not that I’m a fan, but it would make sense to have a sense of the actual data.
Most operate under NDAs.