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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Robert E. Marc
The recharge time constant on the Ogallala Aquifer is about 3k years. So you aren’t getting that water back. Similar issue for other ground water sources.
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Tim Macinta
My limited understanding is that it then falls as rain somewhere else, and this depletes the local water source. That's a big deal locally (I don't know if there's a global impact).
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