Jesse :neocat_shy_flower:@jessew@mk.cpluspatch.com
also datacenters often have closed-loop water cooling so they never actually "consume" water, they just reuse it lol
also even if they turn it into vapour or something it will just come right back to the source eventually through the water cycle
datacenter water "usage" is such a non-issue i have no idea why the media keeps talking about it
Andrew@generalising@mastodon.flooey.org
I got sucked into running the numbers on that "delete emails to save water" thing. Best estimates I can find are that live datacentre storage in the UK has a median water usage of ~80ml/GB/year. So a terabyte of cloud storage consumes 80 litres a year.
Network losses from leaks are on the order of 10-15,000 litres per person per year.
Glad we can see the culprit is definitely old forwarded cat photos.