How Much Water Does a Data Center Use and How Much of It Can You Actually Reuse?
A hyperscale data center campus withdraws on the order of 550,000 gallons of water a day — roughly 200 million gallons a year. A smaller wholesale or retail facility averages closer to 18,000 gallons a day. Around 80 percent of that water evaporates in the cooling towers and is gone. The remaining 20 percent leaves […]