Google datacenters use 'a quarter of all water' in one US city

"Google claims that the total annual water consumption of its datacenter operations is comparable to the water footprint of 29 golf courses in the southwest US."

Thanks for reminding us of another complete waste of water.

This is clickbait. This "city" has a population of 16000.

Still, that's a lot of water. Surely there must be ways to reduce that. Filter it, clean it, reuse it, use rainwater...

Wait, where do you think that water goes after the datacenter "uses" it?

Not back into the freshwater reserves, obviously.

Most of the water use is in evaporative cooling. Not really a way to re-use water that's now in the air.

This, in part, is how Google gets an average PUE of 1.1. Which is _really_ good compared to typical.

The Dalles, Oregon is a real city.

I'm pretty sure that a municipality needs a population of 50K to be considered a city. This is more of a small town.

Wait 'til you hear about farming...