Why Microsoft is really abandoning evaporative coolers at its Phoenix DCs
"I think at first we were all very optimistic that the cooling water… could become a source of water for drinking, because they were looking to be a little bit more environmentally friendly, a little bit more sustainable," Barbara Chappell, water services director for the City of Goodyear, toldHowever, according to the city, Microsoft almost immediately abandoned this plan — apparently due to trouble with the governing regulatory bodies.
Yet, with the second datacenter nearing completion, the city says these improvements were never made. What's more, due to the speed at which the city has grown,"there is no additional capacity available to the city's wastewater treatment plant to accept industrial discharges from Microsoft's operations in excess of the 500,000 GPD currently allowed," a city report published earlier this month asserts.
Refrigerant and chilled water coolers — two alternatives to evaporative cooling — aren't nearly as efficient, Beran explains. And this will likely mean higher greenhouse gas emissions, unless Microsoft can make up for those efficiency losses elsewhere.
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