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Air, liquid, and immersion: keeping ever-denser racks alive.
A ChatGPT query uses a fifteenth of a teaspoon of water, or half a liter, depending on who is counting. Here is what the credible numbers say about data center water, where it actually goes, and why towns from Tucson to Port Washington are fighting over it.
The average server rack still draws under 9 kW. AI racks are heading past 600. Inside the industry's forced march from air conditioning to liquid cooling, and the water politics that come with it.
Every watt a server draws leaves the building as heat, and Europe has spent a decade proving it can warm homes and swimming pools. So why does the EU's own data show just 1.8 percent of it gets reused?