Why do data centers use fresh water?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>If one of the issues with DatCenters is water usage, why not incorporate desalination into the water cooling systems and build the data centers

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Please someone set me straight and dispel whether there are myths surrounding this often-repeated internet factoid</p> <p>And I genuinely don't

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>In my opinion, the biggest bottleneck for AI and its future capabilities is not data, models, or funding it is data centers. More specifically,

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>specifically, I want to find out how much water data centres are using as a comparable figure such as gallons per minute. (and also do they use

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<p>In February, city officials in Cheyenne, Wyoming discovered something in their reclaimed water system that shouldn't have been there: <em>Cupriavidus gilardii</em>, a rare

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Nvidia announced a new cooling system that cuts water use inside the data center. But it does nothing to address AI's biggest water use — fossil fuel power plants.