The Tucson city council voted unanimously Wednesday against bringing the massive and water-devouring Project Blue data center — tied to tech giant Amazon — into city limits. After weeks of escalating public outrage over the lack of transparency around Project Blue, the council voted to end negotiations and remove the annexation and development agreement from […]
I’m not super informed on these systems, but looks like evaporative cooling does account for a lot of water consumption. Probably also explains why freshwater is used (to avoid mineral and other deposits.)
Why don’t they just use the clean and treated but ‘non-potable’ wastewater from sewerage plants?
It’s not like the water disappears after it’s done running through a cooling loop, it’s just warm and discharged back into the sewer.
I’m not super informed on these systems, but looks like evaporative cooling does account for a lot of water consumption. Probably also explains why freshwater is used (to avoid mineral and other deposits.)
Because that would make sense, probably, and wouldn’t directly harm anyone.