[jokoon]

why would they need that much water anyways ?

[CHY872]

It's not much water. If you have a field of corn 700m by 700m, it needs that much water to grow.

[jokoon]

But they're not growing corn. I mean what would the NSA need water for ? Drinking ? Can't they just ship bottled water ? Do they really have that much personnel there ?

[spacemanmatt]

I'm slightly surprised this is a question. Water is part of many cooling systems. They're running a server farm. Surely they have some other uses for it, but cooling their server farm is the big, obvious application.

[jokoon]

since when does cooling consumes that much water ?

[icebraining]

Cooling machines?