alt Hacker NewsWater is a renewable resource. It actually is infinite if youre just using it to cool a datacenter, it does not disappear when youre done with it.
Water is a renewable resource. It actually is infinite if youre just using it to cool a datacenter, it does not disappear when youre done with it.
It does if that water is being pumped from underground resevoirs that take 100s of years or more to refill then heated up and evaporated away to rain down upon the ocean or run down the Mississippi to the ocean.
I don't think people would care so much if they were using lake or stream water that got sent back, but often they don't because it isn't clean water which means more money spent on filtration and/or cooling system maintence.