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Drought-stricken communities push back against data centers
- LinuxBender 5y agorequire up to 1.25 million gallons of water each day Something is wrong in the reporting. Datacenters use closed loop cooling systems. Very little water is lost, if any. If there is a datacenter truly using millions of gallons of water each day, I would like to see it.
- p_l 5y agoEvaporative cooling became "cool" (pun intended) some time ago. And it's extra capable in dry climates.
- spats1990 5y agoSee: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-04-01/how-much-water-do-google-data-centers-use-billions-of-gallons https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-04-01/how-much-... "In Red Oak, Texas, a town about 20 miles south of Dallas, Google wants as much as 1.46 billion gallons of water a year for a new data center by 2021, according to a legal filing." The legal filing: https://interchange.puc.texas.gov/Documents/49863_21_1037351.PDF https://interchange.puc.texas.gov/Documents/49863_21_1037351... The 1.46 billion gallons of water _a year_ figure comes straight from this filing. Divide by 365, that's four million gallons a day, way more than 1.25 million. Could you expand on how something might be wrong with the reporting when by Google's own account it is planning to build datacenters that use this much water a day/year? More: "Google’s data center water use became a subject of controversy last year in Berkeley County, South Carolina. An environmental group opposed the company’s request for 1.5 million gallons of groundwater a day from what it said was a “historically threatened” source. The company has also worked with Berkeley County Water & Sanitation to get 5 million gallons a day from the Charleston Water system. Google said its share of this supply is far less than 5 million gallons a day, with the rest available for the broader community."