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Life next to a US data center
"I can't live in my home with half of my home functioning and no water," Ms Morris says. "I can't drink the water."
"I'm afraid to drink the water, but I still cook with it, and brush my teeth with it," says Morris. "Am I worried about it? Yes."
Meta, however, says its data center and the poor water quality are not connect.
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'I can't drink the water' - life next to a US data centre
Residents in rural Georgia say the data centre next door has disrupted their water supply.By Michelle Fleury (BBC News)
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Well, according to the article (which I don't trust entirely, as news outlets regularly get the most basic technical aspects wrong):
Many centres use evaporative cooling systems, where water absorbs heat and evaporates - similar to how sweat wicks away heat from our bodies. On hot days, a single facility can use millions of gallons.
Then, technically, water is not "missing", just turned into steam, but... you get me.
The Beeb is sort of implying this is the case, but of course they didn't bother to dig up or offer any more specifics to the reader.
and?
Evaporating it means that it will rain somewhere else. No water is lost. There are no chemical transformations, so evaporative systems, even if the output was steam, are just creating clouds of water, which will rain again.
Where is the "lost" water, exactly?
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Land is losing freshwater
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As the atmosphere heats up, it holds more water longer
Many drought stricken areas lose freshwater because of evaporative cooling.
Evaporative cooling often uses chemicals and leaves behind a nasty sludge.
There's another water part of a data center which actually circulates water around the servers. This uses highly chemically treated water which is changed regularly because of various buildups
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I suppose it's "lost" in the sense that it's no longer available where it previously was.
If I evaporate your pool, no water is "lost", but you'll have a hard time bathing in it.
I think that's what they're trying to say, but it's... pretty vague, to say the least.
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To someone who is thirsty, it matters a lot that there isn't enough water nearby.
And anyway, there is a global freshwater crisis that is accelerating.
So, both locally and global, there are huge and growing issues with access to freshwater.
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