logoalt Hacker News

nephihahayesterday at 12:02 PM2 repliesview on HN

Water is going to be needed to cool all these data centres going up around the world. They will gobble up electricity and water.


Replies

neoromantiqueyesterday at 12:05 PM

Clean water use for data center use has literally zero impact on water situation in Iran.

Datacentres don't consume water.

show 2 replies
meindnochyesterday at 12:10 PM

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?!

show 5 replies