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A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure (www.politico.com)
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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 — without initially paying for it.

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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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