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Data center water consumption isn't due to it's use as a heat transfer medium, it's due to the evaporative cooling which cashes in water's enthalpy of vaporizat
by thereisnospork 1y ago
Data center water consumption isn't due to it's use as a heat transfer medium, it's due to the evaporative cooling which cashes in water's enthalpy of vaporization.
Thr alternative would be to use a heat pump and spend electricity to cool the water that cools the servers.
- nine_k 1y agoAh, I see. I keep thinking that modern datacenters would looks more like [1], or at least like [2], with direct water cooling. Supermicro servers and even Dell PowerEdge servers now have the direct water cooling option. OTOH the cooling of the resulting hot water can be evaporative indeed :( [1]: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/blackwell-platform-water-efficiency-liquid-cooling-data-centers-ai-factories/ https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/blackwell-platform-water-effic... [2]: https://www.gigabyte.com/Enterprise/DLC-Rack https://www.gigabyte.com/Enterprise/DLC-Rack