Water used for power and maintenance of Bitcoin servers adds more environmental issues.
  • lechatron@lemmy.todayEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    Some water is used in humidifiers, there are also systems that use direct evaporative cooling where the water is eveporated to cool the hot air. There are probably other ways the water is lost.

    AWS’ preferred cooling strategy for its data centers is known as direct evaporative cooling. In this system, hot air is pulled from outside and pushed through water-soaked cooling pads. The water evaporates, reducing the air’s temperature, and the cool air is then sent into the server rooms.

    https://dgtlinfra.com/data-center-water-usage/

      • lechatron@lemmy.todayEnglish
        7·
        2 years ago

        These cooling systems remove and release all of the heat produced inside a data center – from servers, IT equipment, and mechanical infrastructure – into the outside environment, through a cooling tower that uses a water evaporation process.

        It goes outside and eventually becomes rain.