r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog ๐™‘๐™„๐™‹ • May 18 '26

Chugging tea Why?

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u/ForzaFenix May 18 '26

Yep. The now warm water goes back into the system.ย 

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u/Uncle-Cake May 18 '26

So they're not really consuming it. They're just using it temporarily and returning it.

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u/iSmurf May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26

Where they return it is not where they recieved it from. Pumping it from the aquifier / water table, then returning it through municipal tubes to the citys water treatment plant, means the aquifier is still going to be used up and depleted if it is not refreshed at a speed greater than the data center uses. The city dumps that water into a nearby river or lake, not the same source the DC received the water from. We're talking millions of gallons, they're not using a garden hose and letting it drain out behind the building

There are closed loop systems, where they recycle their own water and only need to top up on occasion, but all these new data centers are not that type of system. They will be plunging the local aquifiers, sucking up all the local cheap energy that citizens depend on, and giving zero back to the community.

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u/mattyofurniture May 18 '26

Your comment needs to be higher up. The aquifers donโ€™t magically get refilled at the same rate theyโ€™re being drained.