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It is suicidal to run untreated water thru a chiller to reach 40F. That is the temperature the water needs to be to flow into CRAH units to chill a data center. At above 48F, water is no longer able to work against the heat load in a data center. If a datacenter reaches 80F, the hard drives start failing as the temperature of the air is not able to offset the heat load.
How do you think cooling systems work in datacenters?
None of this is relevant, I don't even know what point you're trying to make.
Jewgle's datacenters use water, period. By their own admission:
> In 2024, we consumed a total of approximately 8.1 billion gallons (31 billion liters
or 31 million cubic meters) of water across our data centers (excluding those operated by third parties)
It’s to get rid of all the heat from the facility, not literally run river water over a GPU lol.
How do you think cooling systems work in datacenters?
Jewgle's datacenters use water, period. By their own admission:
> In 2024, we consumed a total of approximately 8.1 billion gallons (31 billion liters
or 31 million cubic meters) of water across our data centers (excluding those operated by third parties)
https://www.gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustainability/google-2025-environmental-report.pdf