• dan@upvote.au
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    4.6 million gallons or water

    How does it consume this much water? I thought modern water cooling systems were all closed-loop systems?

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      Modern water cooling systems can be closed loop, but that’s more expensive, particularly at the scales datacenters use. So, evaporative open-loop cooling it is!

      if you make them use closed-loop systems through regulation, they would make less profit, and we can’t have that!