How much water do data centres use? Most tech companies won't say

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A typical data centre can use as much water as a city of 50,000 people. As more of these facilities are being built to meet rising demand, this water use is coming under scrutiny – particularly in areas of the US affected by the ongoing megadrought.

Most tech companies have water management programs that are rated as weak, and many won’t even disclose how much water they use, according to a new analysis.

This comes as much of the world has experienced sweltering heat waves and dried-up rivers amidst the growing impacts of climate change – and the western US is in the 22nd year of its worst drought in more than a millennium.

 

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This is only for places that don't recycle the water because local corruption makes water cheaper than electricity. It's not a difficult problem to solve.

Surely they should recycle the water? And isn't there some way of using the excess heat to generate power? Probably need some environmental laws here to force them to do so. First there needs to be some laws to require them to be more transparent about their ESG responsibilities.

Is that drinking water being used to cool dcs here ?

Why this warm water can't be used for irrigation?

Do they use fresh water though?

they should use sea water

Ok regulate that these system which uses potable water to make these a semi-closed loop system. I don’t see why they are not already a closed loop system.

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