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Re:Google datacenters use 'a quarter of all water' in one US... by aspyct on Monday December 19, 2022 @04:36PM (#34058091)
Still, that's a lot of water. Surely there must be ways to reduce that. Filter it, clean it, reuse it, use rainwater...
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Re:Google datacenters use 'a quarter of all water' in one US... by yunohn on Monday December 19, 2022 @05:11PM (#34058462)
Wait, where do you think that water goes after the datacenter "uses" it?
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Re:Google datacenters use 'a quarter of all water' in one US... by aspyct on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @01:15AM (#34062229)
Not back into the freshwater reserves, obviously.
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Re:Google datacenters use 'a quarter of all water' in one US... by SuperQue on Monday December 19, 2022 @06:21PM (#34059283)
Most of the water use is in evaporative cooling. Not really a way to re-use water that's now in the air.

This, in part, is how Google gets an average PUE of 1.1. Which is _really_ good compared to typical.

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