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When the amount of water a hyperscaled data center uses is considered a “trade secret” the claim they do not use that much water is misleading at best and an outright lie at worst

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Anonymous 8w

Most new data centers use mineral oil for cooling now.

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Anonymous

#1 8w

Watch the video, the water used to generate the power for these data centers is significantly higher (up to 24x in meta’s case) than the water used in the data center itself

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OP 8w

Sounds like it’s an issue of poor innovation in our electric generation systems.

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