Comment by Throaway1982
Comment by Throaway1982 2 days ago
Is it? It's my understanding that cooling an AI data centre takes massive amounts of water. Agriculture may be worse but no one is saying they want that either.
Comment by Throaway1982 2 days ago
Is it? It's my understanding that cooling an AI data centre takes massive amounts of water. Agriculture may be worse but no one is saying they want that either.
They use evaporative cooling towers because you need far fewer of them. The evaporating water can be separate from the main cooling loop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling_tower#Heat_transfer_me...
Charge them more for water and electricity until they're using the amount of water you think is right.
The fundamental problem here is municipalities getting into cozy, sweetheart deals with corporations.
Agriculture ships water away in the form of crops. It loses water from evaporation. I think data centers use closed-loop cooling. They use water but they don't lose it.