Facebook Aims For Greater Water Efficiency At Data Center
About one week after releasing energy usage figures, Facebook showed how efficiently water is used at its data center in Prineville, Ore. The verdict? Good, not great.
About one week after releasing energy usage figures, Facebook showed how efficiently water is used at its data center in Prineville, Ore. The verdict? Good, not great.
One year after Facebook started tracking water usage in Prineville (based on WUE, or water usage efficiency), the meter reads 0.22 L/kWh (liters per kilowatt-hour). That might seem low, but as tech blog GigaOM notes, the ideal figure is zero.
Facebook’s Daniel Lee outlined on the Open Compute Project blog how the company uses water in Prineville:
WUE measures water used for cooling a data center only; it doesn’t measure water used for plumbing or offices, although Facebook minimizes water usage in these areas, as well, by using reclaimed water and waterless urinals in the bathrooms.
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