Research on data centers (8) : Water resource utilization

The energy consumption in a data center is huge and the clean water consumption cannot be ignored. Presents the water resource status in the earth. Provides the definition and calculation method of water use efficiency (WUE). Points out the matters needed to pay attention in calculating the water consumption of data centers. The measured data show that WUE of data centers in China is obviously lower than the advanced international level, which needs to be improved. There are many ways to significantly reduce the water consumption of data centers, which is worth further studying, applying and promoting.