Comments on: Data Centers Move to Cut Water Waste

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:14:03 +0000

To Whom it May Concern,

I am an artist currently working on a series about some of the youtube videos posted in regards to the catastrophic Japanese tsunami of 2011. I greatly appreciate the conversations in this thread and I would like to pose a question very specific to what I am trying to accomplish in hopes that someone here might have some insight: Approximately how much water is required to cool a server playing one youtube video (approximately 50 mb) just once? I know that this is a ridiculous question in some sense because no server houses only one 50mb video and the amount of water used to cool this would be diminutive. Perhaps it would be more logical to ask how much water it might take to cool a day’s worth of plays (let’s say about 1000) and then go from there. Once again, thanks in advance for your thought. I am very interested in showing the difference between controlled and uncontrolled water, between human resistance and fatalism, between representation and physicality and would therefore be extremely grateful if someone could help me out in my research on this issue. Thank you immensely.

By: Potemkine!

Potemkine! — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:51:37 +0000

MW of thermal energy are dissipated with cooling towers, one could say lost by cooling towers. There should be a better way to use this energy.

By: Cooling Towers

Cooling Towers — Fri, 20 May 2011 06:53:55 +0000

Great. We manufacture cooling towers. Regularly we are using water. This recycle method of Data Centers move to cut water waste is really use full for our clients. Here after we will introduce our client about the data centers to avoid water waste while using cooling towers

By: Roy Carroll

Roy Carroll — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:38:31 +0000

I’m working with a local municipality to develop a data center park that borders 2 mile of river frontage. Does anyone have knowledge of using river water in conjunction with a heat exchanger to reduce water consumption?

By: Bob Leimberg

Bob Leimberg — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:12:00 +0000

I know this isn’t exactly related but what has been done to protect cooling towers from damage (tornado)? Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

By: John Peterson

John Peterson — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:56:45 +0000

Thanks for bringing this up again. I have recently been giving presentations on this very subject, including weighing the benefits of the local areas and municipalities.

What seems to be missing is mention of zero-blowdown technologies that are becoming more and more viable as they become more efficient and reliable (and not decay equipment).

By: sustain » Blog Archive » The Cloud Needs Water, Lots of Water

sustain » Blog Archive » The Cloud Needs Water, Lots of Water — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:42:12 +0000

[...] keep things cool. So much water, in fact, that it can exceed the capacity of local utilities. From Data Center Knowledge: The enormous volume of water required to cool high-density cloud computing server farms is making [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:48:58 +0000

We have a system that can increase the cycles in a cooling tower and uses the atmosphere to do it. In any exisitng facility with a cooling tower, our inexpesnive system plugs in sidestream cnd continually manufactures hydrogen peroxide. The mixture is then hit with a UV light to keep the scaling ions and bio-growth in check. The elevated calcium levels prevent corrosion as well. Additionaly, when the system blows down the hydrogen peroxide will return to Water and Oxygen over time.

This system has the ability to reduce the need for make-up water and limits blowdown to a very high degree. It can reduce system consumption dramatically. If you are interested, please email me at mskarulis [at] yahoo [dot] com

Thanks,

Mark

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By: Tom Ryder

Tom Ryder — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:47:31 +0000

Thank you very much for your honest and informative article regarding the role new and old data centers play in the use of water in our country today!