Tucson City Council rejects Project Blue data center amid intense community pressure - AZ Luminaria
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The Tucson City Council voted to reject the proposed Project Blue data center— tied to Amazon — after weeks of community pushback.
  • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    11 days ago

    Why don’t they just use the clean and treated but ‘non-potable’ wastewater from sewerage plants?

    It’s not like the water disappears after it’s done running through a cooling loop, it’s just warm and discharged back into the sewer.

    • hash@slrpnk.netEnglish
      6·
      11 days ago

      I’m not super informed on these systems, but looks like evaporative cooling does account for a lot of water consumption. Probably also explains why freshwater is used (to avoid mineral and other deposits.)

    • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      11 days ago

      Because that would make sense, probably, and wouldn’t directly harm anyone.