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You realize the cooling system in a data center is a closed loop that circulates a fixed volume of water, right? Your kidneys are filtering 200 liters of blood
by meindnoch 10mo ago
You realize the cooling system in a data center is a closed loop that circulates a fixed volume of water, right?
Your kidneys are filtering 200 liters of blood per day. OMG, where's all that blood coming from?!
- yrxuthst 10mo agoMany data centers use evaporative cooling, since it's much cheaper than closed loop. This requires a constant input of water.
- everdrive 10mo agoIf this is true, why have I heard about data centers demolishing local water supplies? Is this incorrect?
- moooo99 10mo agoIts a thing that cannot be generalized. However, many datacenters use evaporative cooling. Especially when the DC is built in a region with relatively warm outside temperatures, it‘s basically the only viable way to get rid of all that heat.
- SoftTalker 10mo agoIt seems weird then that they are not locating data centers around northern rust belt areas where the industrial land use would not be an issue and rivers/lakes are plentiful (being the main reason those cities and industry developed there in the first place).
- nephihaha 10mo agoThe blood comes from liquids I ingest (and some food and air). If I don't drink, I'll die quite quickly. That isn't a closed loop exactly although there is a complex system connecting my digestive/urinary tract with my bladder etc.
- yvdriess 10mo agoYes and just like our bodies, that closed loop is cooled by a rack of evaporators on the roof.
- kjs3 10mo agoApparently, you don't urinate like the rest of us; humans are not a closed loop. Neither are most data center cooling facilities, but I think it's pretty clear that level of fact is wasted here.