The Big Data Center Water Problem

·Asianometry··

A datacenter with 15 megawatts of IT capacity is estimated to use about 80-130 million gallons of water each year. That is as much water as three hospitals, or two 18-hole golf courses. The current AI boom has the world's tech giants building big data centers across the world. We all know they need a lot of energy. But what about water?The two are very closely tied together.This channel has a not-so-secret obsession with water. In this video, we look at the data center's massive water footprint....

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