2026-07-04 01:56 UTC
The Potomac River is regularly polluted with sewage overflow, farming fertilizer + pesticide runoff, industrial discharge, trash, etc, etc. To use that in a data center it needs to be cleaned up or it would clog up data center chillers almost immediately, which takes industrial water filtration, like ozone nanobubblers.
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@ArthurZork@mstdn.party 2026-07-04 02:07
The #ReflectingPool is an awful evaporation pool though if they actually try to misuse it like that. The water isn't deep enough to circulate well, it's a trash magnet, it's difficult to clean, constant sun, & is perfect for growing algae or bacteria, the bane of data center water based cooling systems. The hot water #dataCenters produce is also perfect for some algae & bacteria, clogging chillers with dreaded "data center sludge". Declogging requires shutdowns while systems are flushed.