Data centers are drying up the Port of Marseille: ‘They consume enormous amounts of electricity’

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-08-24/data-centers-are-drying-up-the-port-of-marseille-they-consume-enormous-amounts-of-electricity.html

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TRock@feddit.dk · 15 pts · 364d (7 replies)

Where does the water go?

vane@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 364d (3 replies)

To the cloud

ms_lane@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 364d (1 reply)

Nestle: Water-as-a-Service you say?

vane@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 363d

Me ? I'm nobody but that lady from WEF have something to say about water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSfUHn4ZxiE

Also some wall street boys started trading water futures 5 years ago so expect we all run out of water soon.

You nailed future plan.

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 364d

Thanks dad.

SMillerNL@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 364d

It’s used for cooling, so in the atmosphere.

Evono@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 364d

Vapor into atmosphere and goes down somewhere else as rain.

the bigger issue for me is , the billions of litres of water sitting in warehouses packaged as bottles , cans , food as in soups , and more its literally water missing in the natures recycling circle.

yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 363d

Water?

From the article:

In some places, the main criticism that residents have about data centers has to do with the amount of water they consume to cool servers. This isn’t the case in Marseille, however, which is well-supplied with this resource.

The "drying up" in the headline refers to electricity consumption.