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Of course water is not destroyed. It gets contaminated. And to clean it up, you need energy. Basically, we can simplify those equation to pretty much single arg
by Borg3 1y ago
Of course water is not destroyed. It gets contaminated. And to clean it up, you need energy. Basically, we can simplify those equation to pretty much single argument: energy. Whatever you do, it needs energy. And people really really comes very lighty to that problem and waste management. If we would really like to recycle everything property I suspect global energy usage 10x fold at least.
For now, its just better (I mean more economical) to just "store" that waste somewhere.
- bryanlarsen 1y agoNot in a data center. In a data center the water is either re-used (closed loop) or it's evaporated (open loop). In either case the water does not need decontamination.
- UncleOxidant 1y agoYeah, I'm not sure how water in a data center gets contaminated unless they're saying it's contaminated with heat. That can be an issue in some areas where raising the temperature of a river could have an adverse effect on life in the river, but I don't think many of these data centers put water directly back into a river.