Google’s water use is soaring, consume more than 25% of water used in The Dalles
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#3Seems like a waste of chlorine & flouride. Why Dalles & not say Hood River 24 mi downriver?
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#4Where does the water go after being used for cooling?
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#7Seems like a waste of chlorine & flouride. Why Dalles & not say Hood River 24 mi downriver?
Local resident here: there's a hydroelectric facility that provides a lot of the power for the data centers in The Dalles. More generally, land is more plentiful and cheaper there than in Hood River.
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#8I mean so what they just pump it through and send it back to the river probably cleaner then it originally was. What’s the problem? The water is not being wasted
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#9I mean so what they just pump it through and send it back to the river probably cleaner then it originally was. What’s the problem? The water is not being wasted
The heat has to go somewhere. If it’s going into the river that’s very bad ecologically. They don’t address this in the article though.
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#10I mean so what they just pump it through and send it back to the river probably cleaner then it originally was. What’s the problem? The water is not being wasted
The header image for the article is a picture of steam rising up from their datacenter.
Nearly all water that we use is eventually recycled. Steam will eventually come back down as rain, and rainwater works its way through the ground and into streams and rivers - the magic of the water cycle. Water is a renewable resource from that perspective. The issue is the rate at which we use it, because the water cycle is not instantaneous. If you use water faster than it can be recycled, you will find yourself running short. This is why water reservoir levels are dropping all along the Colorado river.