hogg wash... if they use water to cool, they dump the warmed water back into the river and pull in cooler water to cycle through the cooling systems. if they run a closed-loop system and cool the water, then they pulled in 75 million gallons and that's all they need.... c'mon folks... let's use our thinkers before reacting.
The real question is if the water isn't missing due to data centers (I agree, it doesnt even make sense) or drought (maybe/maybe not) then where is it going?
i don't know the specifics of how they cool their data centers.... but as others have posted... that river can run dry during dry spells... i don't live there and cannot confirm that.... but there must be some Pedes out there on the Rio Grande that can confirm or deny the claim of the original poster.
hogg wash... if they use water to cool, they dump the warmed water back into the river and pull in cooler water to cycle through the cooling systems. if they run a closed-loop system and cool the water, then they pulled in 75 million gallons and that's all they need.... c'mon folks... let's use our thinkers before reacting.
The real question is if the water isn't missing due to data centers (I agree, it doesnt even make sense) or drought (maybe/maybe not) then where is it going?
But is it closed loop? I don't know what they use but open loop evaporatorative cooling towers use a lot a water, and reject heat more efficiently.
Where water is scarce, closed loop is used. Evaporative cooling is only used where water is so abundant that the economics make sense.
That makes sense. I'm in Michigan and we don't know how to run out of water.
I assume they just don’t care because they’re raking in millions while drying out the nearby areas.
i don't know the specifics of how they cool their data centers.... but as others have posted... that river can run dry during dry spells... i don't live there and cannot confirm that.... but there must be some Pedes out there on the Rio Grande that can confirm or deny the claim of the original poster.