Cooling with water depends on its evaporation. Evaporative cooling is most efficient in low humidity conditions. Ironically, those conditions are best in the desert where water is scarce. I know. I live in the desert. We live with evaporative cooling- aka “swamp coolers”. They do work - to a point. Almost everyone who has one wants to convert to refrigerated air. Refrigerated air can get much cooler.
ChatGPT and Grok both confirm (this morning, in response to your question) 660 gallons as the total use to produce a hamburger. ChatGPT helpfully adds that if you're only talking about tapwater used at the point of end production, that number drops to 26 gallons. That, of course, greatly understates reality, in much the same way that the Green New Scam folks understate the environmental impact of an EV by focusing only on emissions from the end product. But 26 gallons is still a radically greater number than zero, and only serves to prove the point. The data center scare actually is propaganda, dependent on the public's complete lack of understanding of how much water we use for even minor things.
Cooling with water depends on its evaporation. Evaporative cooling is most efficient in low humidity conditions. Ironically, those conditions are best in the desert where water is scarce. I know. I live in the desert. We live with evaporative cooling- aka “swamp coolers”. They do work - to a point. Almost everyone who has one wants to convert to refrigerated air. Refrigerated air can get much cooler.
absolutely right. same story here. in the 90's i built the largest data centers in Mexico zero water.
however you were doing fine until you bought this propaganda: "A single hamburger takes hundreds of gallons to produce.«
ChatGPT and Grok both confirm (this morning, in response to your question) 660 gallons as the total use to produce a hamburger. ChatGPT helpfully adds that if you're only talking about tapwater used at the point of end production, that number drops to 26 gallons. That, of course, greatly understates reality, in much the same way that the Green New Scam folks understate the environmental impact of an EV by focusing only on emissions from the end product. But 26 gallons is still a radically greater number than zero, and only serves to prove the point. The data center scare actually is propaganda, dependent on the public's complete lack of understanding of how much water we use for even minor things.