• Google’s Data Center Water Treatment Plant

    April 9th, 2009 : Rich Miller

    Earlier today we noted the industry’s efforts to reduce the use of water by large cloud computing data centers. Google says two of its newer data centers are now “water self-sufficient, including the company’s new data center in Belgium, which is located next to an industrial canal. Google has built a 20,000 square foot water treatment plant to prepare the canal water for use in its nearby data center. Here’s a video with more information about the water treatment plant, which was first presented at the Google Efficient Data Centers Summit last week in Mountain View. This video runs about 3 minutes.

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Pierre

Posted July 16th, 2009

All this for cooling water? This water is cleaner than what most of humanity drinks.

[...] chillers altogether in its data center near Saint-Ghislain, Belgium. Bonus feature is an on-site water purification facility that allows it to use water from a nearby industrial canal rather than a municipal water utility. [...]

[...] stato progettato appositamente per funzionare senza un sistema di condizionamento energivoro. L’acqua usata per il raffreddamento viene prelevata da un canale industriale e purificata in loco, senza intaccare le riserve [...]

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