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The neighbors of a data center in Georgia are steaming after they discovered the facility had sucked up nearly 30 million gallons of water โ€” without initially paying for it.

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's only if the system doesn't use evaporative cooling, which most of them do since it requires a lot more cooling infrastructure to not rely on evaporation. Instead of the water evaporating in the cooling tower it'd have to sit for much longer in a cooling tank to allow the heat to radiate away, and that's a very slow process.

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