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Free Cooling
Free cooling is a data center cooling method that takes advantage of local climate or geologic fe...
Air Cooling
Air cooling is a data center cooling method that uses fans and air conditioning units (often wi...
Immersion Cooling
Immersion cooling is a data center cooling method where IT equipment is directly submerge...
Trends in Data Center Efficiency
Recent years have witnessed a shift in the U.S. data center size, with the top panel showing ho...
Visualizing Water Consumption: US Data Centers
In 2023 alone, US data centers consumed an estimated 17 billion gallons of water. That's 52,171...
Comparing Impacts by Cooling Type
Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) = Facility power (kWh)/IT equipment power (kWh) Water Usage Ef...
Visualizing Water Consumption: Non-potable vs Potable
This figure highlights the contrast between city rainfall and the scale of water consumption by...
Marseille, France
In Marseille, France, a European data center company called Interxion uses a form of liquid-bas...
Data Centers in Hot, Dry Climates
In hot, dry climates, the high water demand from data centers can put immense pressure on the l...
Mesa, Arizona
Image: Apple's data center in Mesa, Arizona In 2021, the City Council of Mesa, Arizona approve...
Data Centers in Coastal Areas
Image: A Google data center in Finland that utilizes seawater cooling Coastal areas may appear...
Glossary
acre-foot A unit of volume used to measure water; the amount of water needed to cover one acre o...
Liquid Cooling
Liquid cooling is a data center cooling method that uses liquid coolants (often water) to absor...