Data centers, whose expansion is being fueled dramatically by the artificial intelligence boom, have a far bigger carbon footprint than previously estimated, according to a new study. The sprawling, power-hungry sites, used to store critical IT infrastructure like servers, are being built worldwide by companies and countries as AI applications…
They usually do. They just do the same thing a lot of nuclear reactors do and also evaporatively cool one end of the heat exchange loop.
As far as I can see they don’t ever do it that way, that’s the problem, if it was a closed loop they wouldn’t be pulling water from the mains and causing water pressure issues for everybody else.
Hmmm can they … add a turbine?