| ▲ | bix6 3 hours ago |
| > after tracing a rare bacterium in the city's reclaimed water to Goat Systems LLC, the entity Meta uses to build its Cheyenne campus Hey where’s that person from yesterday who argued with me over the 1m vs 1cm hole in the boat? Everyone saying stop talking about data center water use is missing the entire point as this article shows. |
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| ▲ | jatora 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Data center water use is a fairly separate topic from what this article covers. Related of course but the conversation on USE centers around actual volume use, not contaminants. |
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| ▲ | lostlogin an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | It’s not a separate topic though, as this article shows. A closed loop system can still mess up the water supply, because (in this case) it wasn’t fully closed. | |
| ▲ | theyreallhere 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Discharge, is part of "water usage". Arguing otherwise is embarrassing. | | |
| ▲ | jcheng 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | According to the article this is a closed loop cooling system, once it’s up and running it doesn’t use any water. They run water through it during installation and that’s the discharge that they found bacteria in. | | |
| ▲ | jazzyjackson 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | You can have a “closed loop system” but you need to shed heat somewhere and that is either by air cooling drawing tons of electricity, or evaporation that draws tons of water. | | |
| ▲ | techbro92 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | I’m pretty sure that “closed loop” in this context would mean that the water is recirculated and not evaporated. | |
| ▲ | wiml 26 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | From the links in the article, it looks like this DC runs giant heat exchangers to dump the heat to air. |
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