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dgacmutoday at 2:22 AM1 replyview on HN

As someone else noted - it's effectively zero compared to the water evaporated in evaporative chillers.

But it's still misleading. The major source of water use in datacenters, by _far_, is the water used in power generation. This improves PUE, which reduces power draw, but the savings are almost certainly under about 20% given that many modern datacenters already operate at a PUE of under 1.2. So if you're running on coal or gas, you're still consuming quite a bit of water indirectly.

Now that said again - the water consumption part of this equation is generally overhyped. The power draw is the problem, as are the really bad temporary hacks to the power problem (e.g., what x.ai is doing with "temporary" gas turbines).


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tylerjhardentoday at 1:12 PM

Can you explain what PUE stands for? I am lost.

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