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Data center water usage remains hidden (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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We don’t know how much water data centers use. We just know it’s a lot

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Screw data centers, I want to see desalination combined with nuclear power plants. They literally generate power by boiling water, it's a match made in heaven.

We just need a few more advances in technology to remove impurities from brine and we'd also corner the table salt market.

[–] Fosheze 1 points 1 year ago

Reactors that can do that have existed since the 70s and maybe even earlier.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-350_reactor

The only reason there aren't more reactors like that is because most governments have barely been allowing the construction of new reactors period.