I’m not an expert on data center cooling, but I don’t think closed loop cooling is the norm. At least evaporative cooling is very much a thing. Here’s Lenovo bragging about doing closed loop last year and talking about the industry using evaporative and pressuring water systems https://news.lenovo.com/data-centers-worlds-ai-generators-water-usage/
Water in data center is cyclic. AI uses a miniscule amount of water compared to most things in our economy
MFW I have no idea what the implications of evaporative cooling are
I’m aware, it’s miniscule including that. Without it it would be near zero
I’m not an expert on data center cooling, but I don’t think closed loop cooling is the norm. At least evaporative cooling is very much a thing. Here’s Lenovo bragging about doing closed loop last year and talking about the industry using evaporative and pressuring water systems https://news.lenovo.com/data-centers-worlds-ai-generators-water-usage/