When I looked up how the water in Colorado was divvied up, 90% was going to agriculture. Industrial was at 3%, municipal at 7%.
Data centers would make up part of that 3%, I assume, so they have a ways to go…not that I’m a fan, but it would make sense to have a sense of the actual data.
I keep seeing how datacenters are consuming all the water…but it’s for cooling purposes…they can’t hoard all that water indefinitely, it’s a heat sink. Once it’s performed its cooling job, where does the heated water go? Evaporated into the atmosphere? Re-injected to the ground or river?
All of the above, with there being a pretty wide variety of cooling designs in use. Most of the data center cooling water needs are actually in the power plants that supply them.
Data centers will dehydrate us and all the land. Cows don’t stand a chance.
When I looked up how the water in Colorado was divvied up, 90% was going to agriculture. Industrial was at 3%, municipal at 7%.
Data centers would make up part of that 3%, I assume, so they have a ways to go…not that I’m a fan, but it would make sense to have a sense of the actual data.
I keep seeing how datacenters are consuming all the water…but it’s for cooling purposes…they can’t hoard all that water indefinitely, it’s a heat sink. Once it’s performed its cooling job, where does the heated water go? Evaporated into the atmosphere? Re-injected to the ground or river?
All of the above, with there being a pretty wide variety of cooling designs in use. Most of the data center cooling water needs are actually in the power plants that supply them.