Green IO with Gaël Duez explores how to reduce the environmental impact of our digital world. Twice a month, on a Tuesdays guests from across the globe share insights, tools, and alternative approaches, enabling all responsible technologists, within the Tech sector and beyond, to build a greener digital world, one byte at a time.
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Green IO with Gaël Duez explores how to reduce the environmental impact of our digital world. Twice a month, on a Tuesdays guests from across the globe share insights, tools, and alternative approaches, enabling all responsible technologists, within the Tech sector and beyond, to build a greener digital world, one byte at a time.
#66 Data Centers and Water in the US: a Complex Story with Mohammad Islam and Shaolei Ren
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#66 Data Centers and Water in the US: a Complex Story with Mohammad Islam and Shaolei Ren
“We're living under a water stressed world. Maybe not today, but a certain time of the year.” This new reality stated by Dr Shaolei Ren questions both the resiliency and the water footprint of the data center industry.
In this episode we bring an academic perspective on these questions with two of the most renowned experts in the field, Dr Shaolei Ren and D’ Mohammad Islam. They conducted an intensive survey in the US and shared many insights about the water consumption of data centers with their host Gaël Duez such as: The difference between water consumption and water withdrawal, The water displacement problem, Water is never a single number and has different colors, The trade-off of heat reuse, Why average water consumption of data centers at national level isn’t useful, How to blend cooling technics, A future of zero operational water data centers, The pro and con of nuclear energy to power data centers, and much more!
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Green IO
Green IO with Gaël Duez explores how to reduce the environmental impact of our digital world. Twice a month, on a Tuesdays guests from across the globe share insights, tools, and alternative approaches, enabling all responsible technologists, within the Tech sector and beyond, to build a greener digital world, one byte at a time.
