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		egorfine 16 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon strategised about keeping water use secret Even in case of evaporative cooling the water is not used. It's returned to the environment.

oceanplexian 16 days ago [–]

While technically true, if your datacenter is in Phoenix and you just consumed a few acre feet of water to raise the relative humidity by 0.000001%, for all intents and purposes that was a massive waste of water.

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