Anonymous #1 2w

I don’t think he’s figured that out yet 🫣

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Anonymous #1 2w

It’s not horrible, and it is done, but it’s incredibly expensive. It requires complex specialized systems to treat the water, filter it, deal with bacteria, impurities, and scaling, all of which is massive energy consumption too. But it’s possible, Microsoft, Google, and the nsa all have grey water systems

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Anonymous og_beer 2w

ahhh true I didn’t think about that

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Anonymous #1 2w

But the best option is using non-drinkable clean water. It’s efficient, effective, and doesn’t take away from drinking supply. Which is what many server farms use (and nuclear centers for evaporation systems).

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Anonymous og_beer 2w

So they already use this?

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Anonymous #1 2w

Yeah. It’s actually really rare data centers use clean drinking water. It has competition with water that can be treated to become drinkable, but mainly completes with agriculture and major contributors to drought. Which is especially concerning due to how common data centers are built in dry regions with limited water. Also to correct you earlier statement, 80% of the water is lost in evaporative cooling, which is the main type of water cooling (and required even for closed loop cooling)

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Anonymous og_beer 2w

Ahhh shit I see. I was trying to figure out that evaporative cooling part and kinda assumed it wasn’t the main method in newer data centers, so thanks for the info

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Anonymous #1 2w

Smaller centers can use closed loop but then that loop needs to be cooled with evaporative cooling. But larger centers like they’re pushing out now just can’t feasibly be done with just closed loop

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