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[–] 5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

EverWind said it will use a closed-loop water-glycol system. The company’s preliminary estimate for water usage is an average of 100,000 litres per day for the first phase and 500,000 litres of water per day including both phases.

A "closed-loop" that uses 100,000 litres per day doesn't sound that closed.

As for the wind power, Everwind doesn't appear to have even started construction on any of its planned wind farms and it's likely the data centre will be completed well before they get any wind power online.

And this is all in service to an American company, completely throwing away the "sovereignty" justification for local data centres.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago

    There's nothing sovereign abt this for sure.

    Yeah, even with that water usage it's tiny compared to evaporative. Even 500K per day is on the very low end of industrial plants water usage, from what I gather.

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