• hglman@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    The water isn’t dirty. It’s warm. It would use even more energy to cool it. It’s a lose-lose.

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        1 year ago

        Warm water is the waste product because it’s easier dump the water than to cool the water. Returning the warm water to a usable state is much more expensive at scale.

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            1 year ago

            you might be right but some numbers might back up your claim. I doubt that servers could heat water as much as a nuclear reactor. datacenter coolers certainly don’t have to pressurize the water to prevent it from boiling, it doesn’t get that hot.