Sorry for the random comment splitting. Accidental submit clicks.
Goes up into the clouds, and will be rained back some day
Whatever. And that takes more work. Also "waste it" is completely ignoring the fact that it just
Ocean water would require a distilleration plant or wha
the issue is not "sun evaporate more water", it's that data centers take river and lake water (drinkable) and waste it. it'd be fine if they used ocean water.
@DRZOIDBERG Did you know sun evaporates 577.000 cubic kilometers of water every summer and this water sometimes fall into ocean full of salt too? Every year between approximately 0.76 and 6,6 cubic kilometers of water evaporate in data centers annually. Even if there will be 1000 data-centers with full water consumption, it will be only 1.14% of evaporated water compared to what sun does every summer. The biggest issue here is not water, its energy consumption
we worry bc the fresh water they evaporate evntually ends up in ocean water, making it no longer potable.
Releasing steam really means that water will return to Earth; If data centers were all in one place, that is when we worry. Until we meet again!