I'm an engineer, it can be both an isolation valve AND a gate valve. It is a gate valve used to isolate the raw water supply line.

20,000 square feet? 30 feet? If this is Belgium, shouldn't this be expressed in square meters and meters? This is very concerning.

Servers and computers in general get very hot. Google has 400,000+ servers and increasing scattered around datacentres around the world. To cool the rooms of servers you need water, lots of it (similar principle to air con?). I guess instead of buying water supply they want to try recycling to help the environment and save money in the long run. Hats of to them.

To keep the server cool, 1000 severs or more in 1 room, it can get really hot and over heat without the cold water, And the massive quantities left over is a buffer zone to keep it running .

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Drinking water is held to a more stringent standard than Google requires so yes in the long run it would be cheaper for Google to build a plant.

Google should start their own water brand bottles

Google is like the cool rich kid in school who actually is your friend

@cortezawwris Actually, you may be surprised to know that China is actually starting to increase its' high-tech jobs, and in some cases is actually starting to export the manual labor to america(I'm remembering an article on a high tech solar cell company operating in china; forget which one specifically). Doesn't mean the capacity is particularly distributed, but it is starting to get there. I don't agree it's light years or even ahead in general though.

Brilliant... But, Energy well spent? Yes or No?

Near the Nimy - Blaton Canal, closer to Nimy and near Mons. I actually have no idea where any of those places are, I just googled it.

Where in Belgium is this?

wait im confused, why does Google need a water treatment plant?

is this water treatment plant also a data center?

it seems like a complex set up.

Fascinating! Amazing!

hey, its a good thing they are from USA!

why not? i bet numbers like 100000L of clean water/kilowatt show.

in the long run both financially and environmentally - yes.

Ahh so a form of large-scale water cooling, not unlike that used in enthusiast PCs. Thanks, makes perfect sense now =)

complicated at least some big corporations are going green

Google is an American corporation.

any why in the world does google need this?

its in cali

Good work Google

Awesome

lol watercooling FTW

yes of course

Google now has over 500,000 computers to keep the website up and running and they are now installing another 100,000 every 3 months. they gonna need alot more water, but still i wish we had as much water as google has in brisbane here, WE GOING DRY AHHH!!!! google should share some te he :P

@paul417791 It would be hard to get that water there but you wouldn't be able to drink it... you can't drink sea water!

thanks

i think should look at sacred geometry and starting a new computer language more efficient, anyone done some research one this topic???

Yah, but Google is an American company, hence they use English.

No Google severs in Australia then.. =)

@Patriotfrosh15 but monitors everything you do.

my thought exactly!

nice

Very nice....yawn....ssnnnooooorrrrrr..

This was introoduced April 1st, this has April Fool's writtin all over it!

hmm i agree veryy interesting

this is why google rules!

NOO IM NOT 1ST! ;'( lol im jk but you gotta admin it is stupid if ppl care if their 1st lol

water cooling for their servers.

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who shares your secrets ;)

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GOOGLE IS THE SHIT!!!

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thanks