So a system to recirculate the same 24 gallons per minute would be more expensive than $100k per year for water?
replyMy state's gasoline refineries use about ~13 million gallons of water each day. It's about .7 gallons of water per gallon of gasoline refined.
replyI don't know if you mean to be reinforcing that it's nothing or not
replyRemind me median income?
reply$87k household. So that's 6 median incomes of water being used up by that datacenter. Put that way it doesn't sound bad, especially when you glance at the electric bill.
replyAlso when it evaporates instead of going to the sewer that drops the price in half.
Edit: Oops I got that mixed up and was treating it like a per-faucet cost. So actually it's one household income of water for the entire facility.
Yeah I’m sure someone on median income feels the same
replyProbably, yeah.
replyDo you think people look at big facilities and calculate that they're spending whatever times the medium wage on a crucial service and get mad about it?
Converting things into median wages is a way to put them into scale. They spent this many wages for construction, they spend this many on supplies, they sell this many in product, they hire this many people to work there. If anyone thinks its bad for anything a company buys to exceed a median wage, that's a very silly expectation and I wonder where they got it.
Remind me who leaves 8 bath tub faucets running 24/7/365?
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