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daxaxelrodtoday at 3:38 PM3 repliesview on HN

Anyone who thinks modern data centers don’t use recirculated water can safely have their opinions summarily discarded.


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Betelbuddytoday at 4:09 PM

Data centers consume...a lot...of water by design, recirculated water, does not means no water consumption. Water must be continuously added in evaporative cooling systems used by many data centers.

[1] - Cooling towers reject heat through evaporation, which uses water, not just recirculates it. Evaporated water is lost to the atmosphere and must be replaced with "make-up" water. As a result, recirculating cooling loops still require new water input to make up evaporation and blowdown losses.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling_tower

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b40d-48b2-979etoday at 3:53 PM

Anyone who thinks that modern data centers don't evaporate their "recirculated FRESH water" straight into the ocean can safely have their opinions summarily discarded.

estimator7292today at 5:23 PM

Please google "datacenter evaporative cooling" and then re-evaluate

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