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When the water evaporates it leaves behind the minerals so it builds up quick. There’s maintance that you have to do on them and depending on the place there are regular water changes since the minerals build up. Places that have hard water I would assume change more often plus there is legionnaires from the water too since it’s a good environment for bacteria and other shit. Which can also get put into the air as droplets and assuming you have a humid day it could also make the workers or people near sick. Plus water usage can vary since maintance is not always top priority for companies so a bad float valve can passively just dump water back into the city system

Funny enough the towers in this video have been replaced with newer ones, that also leaked out of the sides xD

Hello I’ve used this as an example video in the past, I occasionally work on cooling towers and usually the maintance is not always the best, so I can’t imagine what they’re doing since it’s kinda hush hush for people working on them so I can’t give information on exactly how their systems work but evaporative is pretty common and air chilled sites are something I come across too but not as often as evaporative[Evaporative cooling tower](Evaporative cooling tower https://youtu.be/dg4L_xdaIIs)

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Nice and warm water, good place for it to thrive. The cooling towers in Arizona sometimes has stickers warning about legionnaires disease.

Then they’ll tell you the data centers are crucial for the us lol

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Thank you

I work on chillers and if the cooling towers float valve isn’t adjusted right and it’s constantly pushing water out for a year without someone catching it, you would loose potentially 500,000 gallons a year or more, and that’s just one part. Granted it goes back into the city’s system but that’s our clean water that has to go into a treatment system taking time and resources. Every place is different but here in Arizona I would assume they use a similar commercial setup. The water to the building from the plant is a closed loop but that’s harder for the cooling towers to the chillers since it’s evaporative, which you don’t loose a lot of water but that’s assuming that everything is in working order and well maintained, and a lot of commercial facilities are cheap on maintenance and don’t like to fix things until it becomes a big issue. To be fair I think industrial only takes up 6% of water use but it’s still precious here.