Samuel
the water use of datacenters I find to be a weird angle to take. does anything bad happen to water when you run it through a computer? surely you can just let it cool down and then reuse it?
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domi
You can disturb ecosystems if you keep pouring hot water to other bodies of water
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Samuel
@samuel.fm
ok that makes sense. probably not an intractable problem tho? just let it cool down?
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domi
Yeah, especially if you have some sort of closed loop system. But stuff like those submerged servers? Ecosystem near them is going to be changed
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Nafnlaus 🇮🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦
Governments are not unaware of the environmental limits of cooling water. Like power plants, once-through cooled data centers have thermal limits on their discharge. Depending on the weather (drought, heat waves, etc), they can sometimes be forced to throttle due to discharge thermal limits.