DC Desalination - The motivation

Tech companies large and small use dozens to hundreds of thousands of processors to make their software work. More and more of these processors are in large data centers (DCs). Of course, large companies have their computers in DCs, but also many small companies are using Amazon’s DCs for their web applications. Moving to datacenters makes financial sense because of economies of scale. One downside of large DCs is that they generate a lot of heat. You can typically measure the size of a datacenter in dozens of megawatts. DCs shed the heat by either dumping it into water bodies (rare) or, more commonly, by using cooling towers like you see for nuclear reactors. All of that heat has value and should be put to use instead of wasted.