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Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up
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The water things still baffles me. Like...just...cycle it. It's a heat exchange system.
What do they do with the water? Pump thru once and then dump it? Why can't they repurpose it? Why can't they use gray water?
I don't get it but that's likely a me problem.
Evaporative cooling. They're trying to save on their electric bills by not using AC. Or sometimes they're cooling the AC condensers themselves this way.
The amount of heat generated is so large they can't properly cool it with a closed loop system.
And clean water just reduces duct maintenance costs.