News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Google's Liquid Cooling. Parent comment

Re:Google's Liquid Cooling by Guvante on Monday August 25, 2025 @04:14PM (#45018440)
To be clear all talk of water usage has been focusing on local usage which isn't well represented by national numbers.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google's Liquid Cooling by abdullahkhalids on Monday August 25, 2025 @06:19PM (#45019815)
Yeah. There are metrics for how water stressed a community is. We know where data centers have been built, and we know how these water metrics have changed over time.

The correct metric is something like, what's the probability that the launch of data center in a location results in nearby communities to drop significantly in these water metrics.

[ Parent | on HN ]