re: AI Data centers

Total Capacity: 4 million sq ft (approx. 2,250 acres).Power Density: AI-optimized facilities can operate at \(200+\) watts per square foot.Cooling Load Calculation: High-density data centers require roughly 1 ton of precision cooling per 50-100 sq ft.Estimated Tonnage: A 4-million-sq-ft facility could require roughly \(40,000\) to \(80,000+\) tons of cooling.Water Usage: To support this cooling, the facility is permitted to use up to 23 million gallons of water daily, with projected annual usage between 500-600 million gallons.


For comparison, LSU’s campus is around 25,000-30,000 tons of cooling at peak load in July/august. The water usage is likely evaporative cooling from the cooling towers used by the water cooled chillers needed for HVAC.

They have to have someone to sell to dumbass. You people are panican idiots

Closed loop cooling dumbass

Guess what ? There is one in st Francisville being built about 1/3 the size of manhattan. Adapt and overcome jacklegs

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Closed loop cooling dumbass

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Not doing a closed loop at 40,000 tons…..

An Air-cooled chiller is 450t each on a larger unit. A water cooled chiller can go much higher and are way more efficient. Better then 1/2 the kW/T of electricity needed.

To do a 40,000+ ton system you are doing water cooled chillers with cooling towers, with their evaporative cooling for the heat rejection to the outside.

Towers are normally 3.0 gpm a ton (but can be sized for 2.0 or 2.5 gpm ton) and between drift and evaporation about 30% of the water for the condenser water system is lost at full load.

All these centers making up the new brains to run shite.

Wonder if we will have to elect them? When they are running the government.

Is that water just evaporating? 23 million gallons a day is just disappearing?

You’re an idiot