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Google consumed nearly 30 million m³ of drinking water in 2022!
Google consumed nearly 30 million m³ of drinking water in 2022!The Free Thinker - August 25, 2023
In four years, its consumption has increased by 82%!
It is not beautiful the fight against global warming with the GAFAM! The protection of the most precious resource of the earth, that is to say water, which is balanced by billions of liters to cool their “data centers”! You will then be explained that it is the fact of watering your garden or filling the swimming pool that destroys the planet! 30 million m³ of drinking water in one year for Google alone, what about the other giants in the sector?
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The mega data center will require 600 million liters of water per year
The mega data center will require 600 million liters of water per yearFrance Evening - May 27, 2023
Zuckerberg's mega data center in Spain will require 600 million liters of water per year
The development by Meta of a large data center in the region of Toledo (Castilla-la-Mancha), is causing concern because of its estimated consumption of more than 600 million liters of drinking water in a region where the water is scarce.
Meta, the conglomerate run by Mark Zuckerberg and on which Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram depend, will install its largest data processing center in Europe in the province of Toledo.
It will be, more precisely, in Talavera de la Reina, the ancient capital of ceramics which today, despite its proximity to Madrid, is going through a period of social, economic and demographic crisis.
Economic opportunity...
The regional government of Castile-La Mancha decided a few weeks ago to continue the Meta Data Center Campus project, highlighting its impact on the territory - more than 1 jobs and 000 highly qualified direct jobs - but ignoring the fact that the infrastructure will consume more than 250 million liters of drinking water per year.
As El País explains, the “total” consumption, including “non-potable” water, could reach “120 liters per second in the data center and 33 liters per second” in the rest of the facilities. At this rate, we are talking about 4,8 billion liters of water per year. However, the company has not officially confirmed these estimates.
Meta currently has three such facilities in Sweden, Denmark and Ireland. A few months ago, a survey by the Noordhollands Dagblab media showed that Microsoft's data center in the Netherlands would consume 84 million liters of water in 2021, while the company had announced a consumption of 12 to 20 million. liters.
...but deleterious environmental impact?
This “under-declaration” is not a first. A similar pattern occurred in the Netherlands. The Middenmeer data storage and information centers, from Microsoft, consumed up to seven times more water than had been forecast when the project was launched.
Technically, water is used in abundance within data centers in order to reduce the temperature of servers or other electronic installations present (computers, storage bays, etc.).
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In Marseille, the excess of data centers
In Marseille, the excess of data centersReporterre - Nov 30, 2022
Data centers are multiplying in Marseille, the center of digital data transit in France. Very greedy in electricity, they are strongly criticized.
" What ?! There are thousands of data stored in this old building?! This Marseille bus driver can't believe it but every day, and has been for years, he passes by a former German submarine base converted into a data center [1].
From the outside, this World War II building nestled in the port of Marseille looks like a huge brown concrete hangar. Named MRS3, it is the third data center established by the company Digital Realty France, in Marseille. The company now has four. Little known to the general public, this activity rooted in the Marseille city nevertheless positions it in seventh place on the world scale of digital hubs. It should even climb into the top five by next year.
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Microsoft data centers pump water from the Netherlands
France Evening - 23 August 2022
While all of Europe is facing an unprecedented drought, the Netherlands discover that the Microsoft firm's data storage centers are real unsuspected pumps.
In 2021, they consumed four to seven times more water than had been recorded in the commitments, i.e. 84 million liters of drinking water.
Data storage centers, more commonly known as "data centers", are places where all the equipment and components of an information system are grouped together. Occupied by Microsoft, the Middenmeer site had undertaken to consume only between 12 and 20 million liters of drinking water per year, in agreement with the municipality of Hollands-Kroon.
However, although the information was classified, the local media Noordhollands Dagblab had access to the real figures, and revealed that 84 million liters of water were spent for the year 2021. In detail, the investigation says Microsoft consumed 75 million liters of water to cool its data centers, and nine million liters for other uses.
