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A Boring Dystopia
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So genuine question, how is a datacenter needing water equivalent to showering? When people shower, the water gets dirty and needs to be cleaned. When water is used to cool servers, it gets warm but that should not be a problem, it doesn't need to go through a water treatment facility afterwards (?)
They use potable water and they use evaporative cooling.
I have no idea what the infrastructure setup is like for cooling that data center, but one way of water cooling is to take in cool water and dump the hot water. If you do this in your home, it's an "open loop geothermal heat pump." You pull in water from a well, heat or cool the water with your AC heat exchanger, then pump it back into the ground or into the sewer.
https://www.geojerry.com/aboutopenloop.html
The water may be treated with anticorrosives.