Research on the water footprint of data centers
Published on by Markus Pahlow, University of Canterbury - Senior Lecturer
Research on the water footprint of data centers
As data storage and cloud computing are becoming more important, this research is timely:
http://users.cis.fiu.edu/~sren/project/water/index.html
Facebook and ebay have taken first steps to report what is called 'water use effectiveness' (as defined by the green grid in a white paper: http://www.thegreengrid.org/en/Global/Content/white-papers/WUE)
To see the values for Facebook and ebay, visit:
Facebook dashboard on water use effectiveness:
https://www.fbpuewue.com/prineville
Similar for ebay:
http://tech.ebay.com/dashboard
Do you happen to know of other research, online measurements, etc. in this area? If so, please share with the community.