Meta is planning water-saving cooling for a proposed data centre in Sturgeon County, Alberta. The company plans to use a closed-loop cooling system designed to keep servers from overheating while reusing cooling water within the system. Both outlets describe this approach as different from evaporative cooling, which relies on large volumes of cool water and releases much of it rather than reusing it. The reporting also places the proposal in the broader context of hyperscale data-centre projects in Canada, many of which adopt closed-loop designs to address water demand and environmental considerations. By using closed-loop cooling, Meta aims to limit the amount of water required compared with systems that depend on evaporating water for heat removal. The articles focus on the cooling method and how it affects water consumption, rather than on other aspects of the project such as construction timelines, capacity, or regulatory approvals.
Meta plans closed-loop cooling to reduce water use at Alberta data centre
Meta is planning water-saving cooling for a proposed data centre in Sturgeon County, Alberta. The company plans to use a closed-loop cooling system designed to keep servers from overheating while reus...
- Meta’s Alberta data centre in Sturgeon County is planned to use a closed-loop cooling system.
- The closed-loop system reuses cooling water within the cooling loop.
- This differs from evaporative cooling, which requires large amounts of cool water.
- Evaporative systems use water that is not reused, while closed-loop designs aim to reduce water demand.
- The plan is described as consistent with other hyperscale data-centre cooling proposals in Canada.
The data centre in Sturgeon County, like other hyperscale proposals in Canada, is to use what's known as a closed-loop cooling system to keep servers from overheating. That differs from an evaporative cooling system, which requires enormous amounts of cool water that is not reused.
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