Drought conditions pose major risk to properties
Most techies live in fear of spilling water on their devices. Data center owners, however, live in fear of not having enough water to cool down their commercial properties.
Worsening drought conditions across the nation could have an outsized impact on data centers, CNBC reported. Water is frequently used to cool data centers, which generate an enormous amount of heat because of the power needed to generate servers......Researchers at Virginia Tech estimated the average data center uses 300,000 gallons of water a day to keep cool...
...moreRSK: I didn`t realize data centers were such high consumers of water. Some companies however have figured out a few partial solutions.
Ken Notes: Since the water is clean for the most part, locating center near the great lakes may be a boon for Wisconsin.
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