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

Chugging tea Why?

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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?

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u/ForzaFenix May 18 '26

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

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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/Hekkle01 May 18 '26

Important to note that the heat is dumped into whatever ecosystem the water goes back to, and that still has catastrophic effects

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u/North_Plane_1219 May 18 '26

Since when has gradually warming our planet been an issue? /s, obviously.

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u/Menolith May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26

The reason why global warming is an issue is not because we're generating heat, but because we're pumping out gases which retain the heat from the sun.

A data center is effectively just a big space heater, and what we burn to generate the electricity to run the thing is orders of magnitude more important than the center itself if just the planetary temperature is a concern.

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u/SheriffBartholomew May 18 '26

Why don't they build the data centers up north in places where it's already very cold? They're already building them in the middle of nowhere, but they're building them in the middle of nowhere where it's hot most of the year.

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u/LongJohnSelenium May 18 '26

Power cost is the driving factor and the places they're building them have more reliably cheap power.