Investing.com — Developers of a large data center that plans to build in Australia have scrapped plans to cool the facility with recycled water and will use a more energy-intensive cooling method, Reuters reported on Thursday.
, OpenAI’s Australian partner, told Reuters that the company ended discussions with utilities after failing to obtain planning permission for a pipeline needed to transport the recycled water to the site.
The 612-megawatt S7 facility, which would rank among the world’s largest data centers, had originally planned to use Sydney’s treated sewage to cool its servers. This approach was designed to avoid using drinking water or increasing demand on the energy grid, according to planning documents filed in April.
But the change will now see the facility use a more energy-intensive method to cool its chips. NextDC told Reuters it will circulate liquid coolant around the chips to extract heat– process that uses no water but more energy.
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