The more I think about this, the more I am convinced that consumption of environmental water is not necessary. Most computer centers attain their system cooling by extreme air conditioning. Works just fine. People have built hangar-sized buildings for the storage of structural composite pre-preg which is maintained at icy temperatures by refrigeration (I've been in one). Food processing and canning plants maintain huge volumes of frozen goods using ammonia refrigerant.
I can understand that some electronic configurations might have high heat production per square inch, for which a water flow would be a desirable coolant (high specific heat, high density), but the water can be a closed loop, with heat exchangers passing it off to the ambient atmosphere.
There must be more to this story.
(I chuckle at their hat tip to "renewable" energy. I recall a recent winter when all the renewables were not showing up for duty, and poor Texas was being pinched by the cold.)
The more I think about this, the more I am convinced that consumption of environmental water is not necessary. Most computer centers attain their system cooling by extreme air conditioning. Works just fine. People have built hangar-sized buildings for the storage of structural composite pre-preg which is maintained at icy temperatures by refrigeration (I've been in one). Food processing and canning plants maintain huge volumes of frozen goods using ammonia refrigerant.
I can understand that some electronic configurations might have high heat production per square inch, for which a water flow would be a desirable coolant (high specific heat, high density), but the water can be a closed loop, with heat exchangers passing it off to the ambient atmosphere.
There must be more to this story.
(I chuckle at their hat tip to "renewable" energy. I recall a recent winter when all the renewables were not showing up for duty, and poor Texas was being pinched by the cold.)