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This is clickbait. This "city" has a population of 16000.
by throwaway23597 4y ago
This is clickbait. This "city" has a population of 16000.
- aspyct 4y agoStill, that's a lot of water. Surely there must be ways to reduce that. Filter it, clean it, reuse it, use rainwater...
- yunohn 4y agoWait, where do you think that water goes after the datacenter "uses" it?
- aspyct 4y agoNot back into the freshwater reserves, obviously.
- SuperQue 4y agoMost of the water use is in evaporative cooling. Not really a way to re-use water that's now in the air. This, in part, is how Google gets an average PUE of 1.1. Which is _really_ good compared to typical.
- ReallyOldLurker 4y agoThe Dalles, Oregon is a real city.
- throwaway23597 4y agoI'm pretty sure that a municipality needs a population of 50K to be considered a city. This is more of a small town.