This is not a SFW instance. NSFW communities will be tagged, and efforts will be made to keep SFW communities clean, but proceed at your own comfort level.
Well, often more than they strictly need. Because many of them opt for lossy evaporative cooling, rather than closed-loop cooling, because it’s simpler, cheaper, and more effective … just at the slight cost of using up our limited fresh water reserves at an alarming rate.
Do not consume as much water as possible.
You will puke, and if you don’t puke, you will die.
and also: data centers do not consume “as much water as possible”, they consume exactly as much as they need
Well, often more than they strictly need. Because many of them opt for lossy evaporative cooling, rather than closed-loop cooling, because it’s simpler, cheaper, and more effective … just at the slight cost of using up our limited fresh water reserves at an alarming rate.