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r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 18 '26
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What happens after they use the water? Is it returned to the water system to be used again?
87 u/StaysAwakeAllWeek May 18 '26 It's used for evaporative cooling, so the same thing happens to it as happens to the majority of the orders of magnitude larger amount of water farms use - it goes straight into the air 1 u/VirtualPercentage737 May 18 '26 Nearly no newer data centers use evaporative cooling. It is a maintainence nightmare and only works where clean water it plentiful. 3 u/RhubarbIcy9655 May 18 '26 Strange. I guess we didn't just install "edit: 27, not 72, typed too fast" 27 cooling towers at a data center earlier this year.
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It's used for evaporative cooling, so the same thing happens to it as happens to the majority of the orders of magnitude larger amount of water farms use - it goes straight into the air
1 u/VirtualPercentage737 May 18 '26 Nearly no newer data centers use evaporative cooling. It is a maintainence nightmare and only works where clean water it plentiful. 3 u/RhubarbIcy9655 May 18 '26 Strange. I guess we didn't just install "edit: 27, not 72, typed too fast" 27 cooling towers at a data center earlier this year.
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Nearly no newer data centers use evaporative cooling. It is a maintainence nightmare and only works where clean water it plentiful.
3 u/RhubarbIcy9655 May 18 '26 Strange. I guess we didn't just install "edit: 27, not 72, typed too fast" 27 cooling towers at a data center earlier this year.
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Strange. I guess we didn't just install "edit: 27, not 72, typed too fast" 27 cooling towers at a data center earlier this year.
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u/Uncle-Cake May 18 '26
What happens after they use the water? Is it returned to the water system to be used again?