One of Google’s data centers is cooled by recycled water.

Google Corporation often uses these or other "green" technologies in its data centers and offices to help save money and cause less harm to the environment. A couple of days ago, the company published the news that now one of its data centers located in the state of Georgia, USA, is cooled by sewage circulating water. Thus, the company's funds, water, and energy are saved.

According to the workers of this data center, when someone takes a shower, he already helps to cool the data center. The new system was modified quite recently, since the construction of the data center, it has been cooled with ordinary water suitable for drinking. But one fine momet engineers had the idea that it’s not necessary to cool the data center with high-quality water, you can also take sewage. But a typical Google data center can consume 378.54 m3 of water per day.
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The recycled water project was developed jointly with some government organizations operating in Douglas County, Georgia. Circulating water -
This is water that has already been cleaned, but it cannot be consumed for domestic purposes. After this water has already been in the cooling system of the data center, it falls into the river Chattahoochee. Interestingly, such a cooling system helps the company avoid the danger of a reduction in water consumption, which can be the case in drought. Harmful environment such cooling system does not cause.

This is not the only such project - a similar system is used in the company's data center in Belgium. It is only there that the circulating sewage water is taken for cooling, and water is taken from a nearby canal, where one of the Belgian enterprises discharges sewage.



Via techweekeurope