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Re:Google's Liquid Cooling by quickthrowman on Monday August 25, 2025 @05:48PM (#45019456)
> I have encountered a lot of references to AI using water, but with scant details.

Here you go: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling_tower

Data centers use evaporative cooling towers which evaporate water to reject heat to the atmosphere.

Re:Google's Liquid Cooling by lkbm on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @10:40AM (#45027198)
My understanding is that most new data centers don't use evaporation cooling these days, at least in water-sensitive areas. Hard to find solid data on this either way, though.

Of course, if you're using dry cooling, it uses more electricity, so hopefully you're using solar, not a source that uses evaporative cooling to produce electricity (if in a dry climate).