The neighbors of a data center in Georgia are steaming after they discovered the facility had sucked up nearly 30 million gallons of water — without initially paying for it.
The neighbors of a data center in Georgia are steaming after they discovered the facility had sucked up nearly 30 million gallons of water — without initially paying for it.
I hate to tell you, but he was right. That’s what closed loop systems do. IDK about this particular story, it sounds like they were open loop. But you should be able to recycle water indefinitely once it’s filled and working.
Are you a bot? Or just a paid shill? You can just do a miniscule amount of searching to find closed loop systems are extremely rare in America due to the costs. Its much easier to just steal and polute potable water
Yeah the thing about the closed loop systems is that they pump a shit ton of chems to kill anything in the water. However no matter what shit grows in the loop. So they end up flushing the loop and dumping the water and chems into the sewer, before repeating the process.
So no, closes loop DCs aren’t great.
And i literally work in one. Just the other week the DC manager told me they had a leak. A stupid amount of water was lost.
But because water is so cheap for commercial metro users it was more a oops then a wake up. Bare min repairs and bam, back up and running.
The point is these “closed” systems aren’t perfect and shit happens. Especially as they age out.
That’s only if the system doesn’t use evaporative cooling, which most of them do since it requires a lot more cooling infrastructure to not rely on evaporation. Instead of the water evaporating in the cooling tower it’d have to sit for much longer in a cooling tank to allow the heat to radiate away, and that’s a very slow process.
Le sigh.
Sorry we’re all so much stupider than you and that no other systems exist to cool datacenters than the one you happen to have read about that time.
Oh so you are just doing propaganda while being a smug prick. Correct. You are much stupider. Just because technologies EXIST doesn’t mean they are widely in use. Its obvious you’re pushing an agenda, one that will poison drinking water for humans, so I’m guessing you’re just a bot