Data Centers
What is used to cool off a data center?
Water
This essential activity for preventing respiratory infections is often overlooked.
What is washing hands?
This is the main reason why chlorine is added to drinking water.
What is to kill microorganisms?
This large body of water is often referred to as the "aquarium of the world".
What is the Sea of Cortez (or Gulf of California)?
When the sun heats up liquid water, this process occurs.
What is evaporation?
Approximately how much gallons of water are used to cool off a 100 MW data center?
What is approximately 528,000 gallons
This is the approximate, average percentage of water that is wasted from a small, leaking faucet.
20+ gallons a day
Rainfall made acidic by atmospheric pollution, causing damage to forests and lakes.
What is acid rain?
These are the three states of water.
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
Any moisture that falls to the ground from clouds is called this.
What is precipitation?
What locations in the US has the largest concentrations of data centers?
What is Northern Virginia (DC area) and Texas?
his amount of time in a shower can waste up to 25 gallons of water.
What is 5 minutes?
This percentage of the human brain is made up of water.
What is 70-75%?
This is the largest source of water on the planet.
What is the ocean?
This is the only substance on Earth found naturally as a solid, liquid, and gas.
What is water?
This is a common, often buried, tank for household wastewater.
What is a septic tank?
This disease-causing agent is a major concern in water quality.
What is a pathogen?
This type of water is found underneath the Earth's surface.
What is groundwater?
This is the temperature at which water boils at sea level.
What is 100 C or 212 F
Placing this material around plants and trees saves over 750 gallons of water a month.
What is mulch?
This is the approximate percentage of Earth's freshwater.
What is 0.5%?
These two seas are separated by the Kattegat and Skagerrak Straits.
what are the Baltic and North Seas?
This property allows water to stick to itself, causing it to bead up on surfaces.
What is cohesion (or surface tension)?