| ▲ | theyreallhere 3 hours ago |
| Discharge, is part of "water usage". Arguing otherwise is embarrassing. |
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| ▲ | 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. |
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| ▲ | 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 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I’m pretty sure that “closed loop” in this context would mean that the water is recirculated and not evaporated. | |
| ▲ | wiml 30 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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