'Cool data centres with treated sewage', says Anglian Water
'Cool data centres with treated sewage', says Anglian Water
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As someone that works in waste water: do it.
The company I work
edfor made a show of signing a partnership with a beer maker to supply them with water to create a unique batch.The water had to be mixed with regular water in order to balance out the profile, as the treated water had underwent an aditional step to make it safe for consumption (UV treatment and micro filtering); it was closer to filtered water than anything else.
Odourless, colourless and tasteless.
Who tried it, said the beer came out just fine.
Using treated waste water for cooling datacenters would be trivial. And cheap.
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As someone that works in a data center, we use an absolute shit ton of reclaimed water for evaporative cooling. 😀
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I know a few id like to cool with untreated sewage
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Google's Atlanta Data Center has been doing this for 18 years...
It's not new nor the only one doing it, but it's disappointing that people consider it new.
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Enjoy your superheated poo water! Surely that will cause no problems, lol!
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Sure whatever. Heat exchanger is heat exchanger.
...until that one breaks.
Then it's a shit storm.
I assume it's relatively clean, but not safe to drink
Edit: I don't think the replies are really getting it. This sounds like a great use of minimally processed water with relatively small risk. It's much better to use this water than potable water for the same purpose, assuming water is going to be used no matter what.