The Internet Is Running Out of Water
Data centers are running out of water to cool their servers with. And they keep asking for more.
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In the United States, data centers are consuming 1.7 billion liters of water per day. Compared to the total daily water consumption of 1,218 billion liters, that’s less than 0.14%. Sounds like a negligible amount. Until it’s not.
Because the reality is, only one third of data center operators are measuring their water consumption. And the water that gets measured is only the one used directly for cooling. But there is a much bigger hidden cost to running a data center than that.
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Data center water consumption
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4154...
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en...
Water used on cooling vs electricity generation
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en...
Arizona, Texas and Google
https://time.com/5814276/google-data-...
Data centers water impact on dry regions
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet...
Arizona water concerns over data centers
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en...
Data center tax breaks
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en...
Apple in Arizona
https://appleinsider.com/articles/17/...
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en...
Chandler, Arizona
https://azcentral.com/story/news/loca...
Oregon
https://apnews.com/article/technology...
https://apnews.com/article/technology...
South Carolina
https://www.postandcourier.com/news/g...
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en...
Lake Mead Depleting
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/na...
Western U.S. drought
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/...
Water shortages in US West
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/...
Colorado River Declining
https://morrisoninstitute.asu.edu/sit...
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/...
Growing Internet demands
https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/m/en_us/s...
Growth of HyperScale Data Centers
https://www.srgresearch.com/articles/...
Data center locations (USA)
https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/
Data Center Energy Consumption
https://www.nrdc.org/resources/americ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/bu...
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate...
https://www.wired.com/story/data-cent...
Efficiency improvement
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...
Microsoft Underwater Data Center
https://news.microsoft.com/innovation...
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news...
Replenishing 120% water consumed by data enters
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020...
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/10/22...
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