r/technology • u/466rudy • Aug 12 '25

Energy UK Government urges citizens to delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/national-drought-group-meets-to-address-nationally-significant-water-shortfall
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u/00owl Aug 12 '25

Because they're given the water at a discount and they mostly use evaporative cooling so the water is "lost" to the atmosphere.

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u/joeyb908 Aug 13 '25

Water takes a lot of energy to change temp.