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[Data Center] Water

George R [PersonRank 10]

Friday, April 10, 2009
15 years ago2,315 views

Data Center Knowledge has a story by Rich Miller about the vast amount of water consumed by server farms. Most of the water for cooling is lost to evaporation. It discusses different methods of dealing with this.

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/04/09/data-centers-move-to-cut-water-waste/

Google has a YouTube video about their water treatment plant at their data center in Belgium. One of the byproducts is Google sludge.

YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPjZvFuUKN8
  

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