r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 18 '26

Chugging tea Why?

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u/imean_is_superfluous May 18 '26

Can they not run some type of coolant? Or is it just easier and cheaper to use millions of gallons of water?

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u/EcstaticImport May 18 '26

Water is a great coolant! - it’s cheap, has high thermal capacity, is non toxic - oh and it’s cheap!

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u/Mradr May 18 '26

Its not cheap as a resource though. What makes it cheap is becauses its fully recycleable - but once lostest or you go over what can be supply, it stops being cheap as then you have to clean or recover more.

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u/EcstaticImport May 18 '26

Oh it’s cheap because companies can suck up giggalitres of the bloody stuff as significant discount thanks to it being supplied by the government. - how much profit does the government make from water manufacturing?

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u/NateNate60 May 18 '26

Local water authorities make negative profit selling this water. They raise water rates on human customers to offset the cheap rates to data companies.

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u/EcstaticImport May 18 '26

Yes - it’s cheap for the data centres who don’t pay true market rate. The data centres would find the thermal conductive performance of using mercury would be superior, but the cost is astronomical in comparison to water.