
By Darren Bonawitz
Attention data center relocation consultants and enterprise customers considering a new data center location, here is another reason why to look at the Midwest and specifically Kansas City.
Water Shortage to Put a Damper on Data Center Cooling?
From The Data Center Journal (datacenterjournal.com), Written by Jeffrey Clark
Recent droughts throughout the United States, along with a growing concern about water shortage (especially in the western US), could also be an increasing threat to data centers. To be sure, water is not the first topic that comes to mind when considering data center design and operation, but it is in many cases a paramount concern.
The vast majority of data centers rely to some extent on water as part of their cooling system for keeping equipment from overheating. Some estimates have places water usage at a typical 15-megawatt data center at 360,000 gallons of water per day. A Microsoft data center facility in Northlake, Illinois, uses about eight million gallons per month—the equivalent of almost 270,000 gallons per day. (read more)
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