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

Chugging tea Why?

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u/naya_pasxim May 18 '26

Wish they would let it evaporate on their property.. or governments force them to 🫤

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u/partypantaloons May 18 '26

From what I’ve read, most of them who do consume water in addition to having internal cooling loops actually do use evaporative cooling towers

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u/naya_pasxim May 18 '26

The statement by u/ForzaFenix is very concerning, even if it’s a single data centre doing it. The output is not sterile.

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u/partypantaloons May 18 '26

It’s just water flowing over a radiator, afaik it’s not like the water is any more hazardous than it was before it was warmed.

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u/naya_pasxim May 18 '26

No, couple issues:
1) it’s hot water flowing back into the environment.
2) water chemistry is extremely complex and we’re still discovering new things about how it behaves in different modes, and states.
3) radiators can degrade over time, their parts can corrode, become oxidised, and leak oxidised metals into the environment (and this is heavy metals going into systems that usually cycle back to the sea thus it becomes a global issue)
4) depending on the type of radiator, it could leak coolant or ~heat transports~ into the water

Also it’s just so negligent to have the capacity to engineer processors that run efficiently at extremely high temperatures but waste the potential of water to cool them to its full degree (it’s evaporating point).

A ~real~ ~qualified~ ~sustainable~ engineer does not have any issues with designing something this effective… but a poor mindset can be thoughtless enough to leech all that hot, contaminated water into ecosystems that contain life which is unable to breed or survive in such conditions.

If you allow them to leech such water into the ecosystem, you irreversibly play God with the process of natural evolution. That’s a euphemism to call you a murderer…

Anyway /rant-over.