Name a data center that uses boilers for anything.
Also there are few data centers that use closed loop water cooling due to increased operating costs.
No. It’s way more expensive to circulate untreated, unfiltered, and non adjusted water to cool machines and electronics, and dump it back out as effluent. You do that and in six months your facility will be destroyed. Most waters from the ground source are liquid chalk. Most surface waters exponentially build biofilms that choke the whole system off, incapable of exchanging heat.
Boiler water management is exactly the same as cooling systems water treatment. Ph, solids, biological, hardness, etc.....Why would you spend a million dollars a month to treat water to only dump it back out as wastewater? Jeeze....
“ Also there are few data centers that use closed loop water cooling due to increased operating costs.”
Every one I ever worked on used closed loop systems. That was most of the ones in the Midwest. I helped design over 20 of them.
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THE DATA CENTER PLANNED LOCALLY TO ME IN N NEVADA HIGH DESERT SAYS THEY NEED 20 ACRE FEET OF WATER FOR A “CLOSED LOOP’ COOLING SYSTEM.
THAT IS 6,517,020 GALLONS......6 MILLION ++++++++
THIS ENTIRE VALLEY LIVES ON PRIVATE WELLS WITH AN AQUIFER