'Thirsty' Computing

Joanna F. Defranco; Jeffrey Voas; Jeffrey Voas

doi:10.1109/MC.2023.3329868

'Thirsty' Computing

Joanna F. Defranco, Jeffrey Voas, Jeffrey Voas

Engineering Division (Great Valley)

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Abstract

Much is written about the energy consumption requirements for data centers. However less is written about the water required to cool data centers. We open a discussion about this topic here.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	9
Pages (from-to)	11-13
Number of pages	3
Journal	Computer
Volume	57
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2023.3329868
State	Published - Feb 1 2024

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General Computer Science

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'Thirsty' Computing

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