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It's not that it doesn't use water; it's that water is not scarce unless you live in a desert. As a country, we use 322 billion gallons of water per day. A few
by Legend2440 6mo ago
It's not that it doesn't use water; it's that water is not scarce unless you live in a desert.
As a country, we use 322 billion gallons of water per day. A few million gallons for a datacenter is nothing.
- bayindirh 6mo agoThe problem is you don't just use that water and give it back. The water gets contaminated and heated, making it unsuitable for organisms to live in, or to be processed and used again. In short, when you pump back that water to the river, you're both poisoning and cooking the river at the same time, destroying the ecosystem at the same time too. Talk about multi-threaded destruction.
- Legend2440 6mo agoNo, you're making that up. Datacenters do not poison rivers.
- bayindirh 6mo agoTo reiterate, I work in a closed loop DLC datacenter. Pipes rust, you can't stop that. That rust seeps to the water. That's inevitable. Moreover, if moss or other stuff starts to take over your pipes, you may need to inject chemicals to your outer loop to clean them. Inner loops already use biocides and other chemicals to keep them clean. Look how nuclear power plants fight with organism contamination in their outer cooling loops where they circulate lake/river water. Same thing.
- camillomiller 6mo agoDude you can’t fight Dunning Krueger. They all think they’re experts in everything now.
- jll29 6mo agoJust because some countries waste a lot at present time does not mean it's available as a resource indefinitely.