Microsoft comes a long way with Water use in Quincy, Transfers water treatment plant to City of Quincy

greenm3.com (Oct 13 2011) Hydro , Cloud Computing

1. When Microsoft's Quincy data center opened, I was able to get a tour of the data center.  One of the questions I asked is how much water does the data center use.  I asked the data center operations staff, they didn't know.  I asked the data center design team, they didn't know either.  And, a response was why do you want to know?  Because I think you use lots of water, and it is an issue in a green data center. When I went back out to the data center a few months later, the data center operation team said they are storing blow-down water in tanks, and they have 6 months before the tanks fill up.  This problem was not unique to Microsoft as other data center operators had blow-down water that cannot be put into the waste stream. A water treatment plant was built to ... (Read Full Article)

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