Comment by Throaway1982
12 hours 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.
12 hours 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.
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.
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...
A few, most don't. If it's cheaper to use an open system then the closed system are only built for show, to soothe the public.
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.