Ankeny water ban
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DuckDuckGo uses Amazon servers and Google isn't present in Des Moines' footprint, so I've wasted no CIWW water here. Keep trying those gotchas though. You'll embarrass someone someday.
Sorry, misunderstood what you were saying. Regardless, the point is we have all made data centers a giant priority, and their demand is huge. These things are heavily competitive and backed politically with some pretty heavy incentives.
This is like the smoking ban in Iowa where casinos get an exception.
Isn't there a massive Google Data Center over in WDM? Or is it Microsoft?
Either way - the percentage of water the data centers use isn't the issue.
I believe the splash pads around the entire metro were allowed to reopen due to the heat wave.
Apple in Waukee? Microsoft has a couple farms at least along the Raccoon in West Des Moines. Meta is a HUGE user near Bondurant. Google has a large data farm near Council Bluffs. That's the nearest I'm aware of.
Soon to be in CR though. In fact CR has a second water treatment facility nearly dedicated to the existing water dependent industries (ADM, Red Star, Cargill and a paper company) with a couple of data centers going in right now as well.
I know. That's why I said in an earlier post that I was grumbling at the DM Waterworks and the farmers who live upstream from Ankeny.
Nothing comes close to stressing production capacity like summer irrigation.
www.ciww.gov
Q: Are data centers being asked to reduce water usage?
A: No. Records show that data centers use 2-6% of the system capacity versus outdoor water usage
which composes 40% or more of our system capacity during peak watering season.
Updated June 18, 2025 - Stage III Water Shortage Plan: Frequently Asked Questions
June 18, 2025
www.ciww.gov
Q: Are data centers being asked to reduce water usage?
A: No. Records show that data centers use 2-6% of the system capacity versus outdoor water usage
which composes 40% or more of our system capacity during peak watering season.
Yeah most data centers use a **** ton of water, but are on a closed loop.Nothing comes close to stressing production capacity like summer irrigation.
Updated June 18, 2025 - Stage III Water Shortage Plan: Frequently Asked Questions
June 18, 2025
Q: Are data centers being asked to reduce water usage?
A: No. Records show that data centers use 2-6% of the system capacity versus outdoor water usage
which composes 40% or more of our system capacity during peak watering season.
I am curious what other areas/states do differently for water. Ilinois, other areas of Iowa, etc use lots of fertlizer and have crops but they don't seem to have the same problem. They grow lots of corn and have drainage tile just like we do.Keep using ethanol so we can grow more and more corn...makes sense.
The 2% number is obviously winter usage rate. So 6% of 60% suddenly becomes 10%. That doesn't seem trivial. I don't think you need to project this very far before we have the oligarchs owning all the clean, barely potable water.Nothing comes close to stressing production capacity like summer irrigation.
Updated June 18, 2025 - Stage III Water Shortage Plan: Frequently Asked Questions
June 18, 2025
Q: Are data centers being asked to reduce water usage?
A: No. Records show that data centers use 2-6% of the system capacity versus outdoor water usage
which composes 40% or more of our system capacity during peak watering season.
This doesn’t seem great…EPA safe drinking levels are 5 ppm. This testing looks like 40-80.
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so do they use cooling towers or some other sort of heat exchangers? just curious how they cool the water down in a closed loop system at those places?
Also a problem.
