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... but don't send any data centers in space where you will have to dump your heat directly by thermal radiation towards the cold CMB... /s
How do you dissipate so much heat in vacuum? Datacenters will need to boil something like water and then dump it somewhere.
Not that space DCs are a good idea™ or economical otherwise.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you dissipate so much heat in vacuum? Datacenters will need to boil something like water and then dump it somewhere.
Just like satellites do: heat pipes and radiators. Not that space DCs are a good idea™ or economical otherwise.
Water usage is often a red herring compared to how much power, noise, and pollution a gigascale DC uses/creates.
I can’t tell if it’s just bot-driven nonsense, not reading the text, or just dishonesty masquerading as commentary.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you dissipate so much heat in vacuum? Datacenters will need to boil something like water and then dump it somewhere.
Just like satellites do: heat pipes and radiators. Not that space DCs are a good idea™ or economical otherwise.
I had some questions in my mind about DCs using closed loop systems and read the article a little. In case anyone else also has similar thoughts: —- The company said its water consumption was so high last year because of temporary construction-related activities, such as concrete work, dust control and site preparation. Once operational, the company said the data centers only will use water for domestic needs, such a…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you dissipate so much heat in vacuum? Datacenters will need to boil something like water and then dump it somewhere.
Just like satellites do: heat pipes and radiators. Not that space DCs are a good idea™ or economical otherwise.
Water usage is often a red herring compared to how much power, noise, and pollution a gigascale DC uses/creates.
Weird comment on an article where that literally isn’t the case. I can’t tell if it’s just bot-driven nonsense, not reading the text, or just dishonesty masquerading as commentary.
I think you should apologize for being a complete asshat.
I had some questions in my mind about DCs using closed loop systems and read the article a little. In case anyone else also has similar thoughts: —- The company said its water consumption was so high last year because of temporary construction-related activities, such as concrete work, dust control and site preparation. Once operational, the company said the data centers only will use water for domestic needs, such a…
> The Fayette County Water System has a total production capacity of 22.8 million gallons per day (MGD).
Source: hhttps://fayettega.org/doing-business/global-access-infrastru...
So...keeping things simple and using months of 30 days:
Using 29M gallons over 15 months = 29,000,000 / (15 * 30) = 64,444 gallons per day avg
Based on 22.8m daily production capacity that's less than 0.3% of the total production capacity per day.
(Happy to be corrected if my napkin maths is wrong / i'm missing something here!)
I had some questions in my mind about DCs using closed loop systems and read the article a little. In case anyone else also has similar thoughts: —- The company said its water consumption was so high last year because of temporary construction-related activities, such as concrete work, dust control and site preparation. Once operational, the company said the data centers only will use water for domestic needs, such a…
First of all, only about 10% of data centers use closed-loop systems. Pointing to a technology that technically exists but is far from standard to represent the entire industry is ridiculous.
Second of all, these facilities do NOT infinitely recycle water. They must regularly "bleed the lines" to remove toxic sludge. The build-up of PFAS is of particular concern. Not to mention the water itself needs to be treated with anti-freezes, anti-fungals, and anticorrosives in order to last multiple cycles.
They also require about 40% more electricity usage. So the trade off is about 70% less water for 40% more electricity and an extremely toxic sludge problem.
TL;DR: closed loop systems are a tiny minority of DCs and their net benefits over open loop are not even clear