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Ending the War on Water
DescriptionLarge data centers around the world consume significant amounts of natural resources, with water receiving significant attention recently due to environmental concerns over consumption rates. It is no secret that data centers consume incredible amounts of water, primarily using evaporative cooling towers to reject heat from servers. However, on average, every watt of heat that is dissipated by evaporated water requires 20x less electricity than dissipating that same amount of heat using an axial fan and a dry cooler. Is the war on water consumption justified? What is the alternative to evaporating water in cooling towers? In this session, we will dive deeper into the physics of water evaporation, and why it is evaporated in such high quantities today and why it is the singular most environmentally friendly element of modern data center operation.