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minus-squarelechatron@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·vor 1 Jahr These cooling systems remove and release all of the heat produced inside a data center – from servers, IT equipment, and mechanical infrastructure – into the outside environment, through a cooling tower that uses a water evaporation process. It goes outside and eventually becomes rain.
It goes outside and eventually becomes rain.