Widespread Droughts Threaten Data Center Water Usage
When people consider the biggest expense in running a data center, they usually think about the soaring demand for electricity in order to run and cool all those power-thirsty servers and switches. The data center industry continues to grow—and thereby uses more power each year—because of increasing user demand for high-speed computing and endless storage capability. Many people, though, don’t realize how much water data centers may use if they are using evaporative cooling (also known as swamp cooling) or liquid cooling instead of air conditioning (which uses refrigerant) to keep equipment from overheating. Data centers have begun to adopt evaporative and liquid cooling for two reasons. The most obvious […]
