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When the amount of water a hyperscaled data center uses is considered a “trade secret” the claim they do not use that much water is misleading at best and an outright lie at worst
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Anonymous 13w

Most new data centers use mineral oil for cooling now.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 13w

Watch the video, the water used to generate the power for these data centers is significantly higher (up to 24x in meta’s case) than the water used in the data center itself

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 12w

Sounds like it’s an issue of poor innovation in our electric generation systems.

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