The demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade
  • nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    8 days ago

    The water use is because of evaporative cooling right? Releases steam into the air? Couldn’t this be handled with standard refrigeratation, even if its more expensive?

    • WanderingThoughts@europe.pubEnglish
      5·
      8 days ago

      Estimated cost for professional installation is about half or less that of central refrigerated air conditioning.

      Estimated cost of operation is 1/8 that of refrigerated air conditioning

      Source

      Seems to be a lot more expensive, especially in running costs.

      • nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        Thanks for the info. It’d be nice if we had a functioning government that could regulate and provide incentives to move data centers away from evaporative cooling.

        Edit: assumed this was in the US.