[j45]

I wish these articles would clarify that there are climates where datacenters exist where water is not used food for cooling including evaporative cooling.

Just because the U.S. uses it doesn’t mean the rest the world does in every build.

Buildings are built for the climate of where they exist.

If a building can’t cool itself above 120 degrees Fahrenheit, that sounds like it could be common in the U.S. there are other ways to cool the building other water.

It would not be the same in a country like Canada, or other northern climates.

This water narrative is being used to undermine new datacenters in other countries, and it’s kind of strange a publication would so willingly not learn a and clarify the difference about buildings being built differently in different countries with different climates.

[bayindirh]

U.S. can also do closed loop liquid cooling, though. No?

With drycoolers or chillers, you can pump out enormous amount of heat energy out of water, even in hot climates.

[j45]

Maybe, my point is that there's a lot of misinformation, misdirection and noise on this on default assuming everyone builds datacenters like the hottest parts of the US.

Datacenters will always be efficiency driven, and that includes putting them in places that need less heating, less energy/power, etc.

There's probably interests in datacenters that might not want attention going to other locations that might be more viable than the ones they have.