{"id":1029319,"date":"2026-08-17T11:16:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029319"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:46:23","slug":"openais-612-megawatt-facility-ranked-among-the-worlds-biggest-ai-data-centres-abandons-plan-to-cool-servers-with-recycled-water-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/17\/openais-612-megawatt-facility-ranked-among-the-worlds-biggest-ai-data-centres-abandons-plan-to-cool-servers-with-recycled-water-as\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI&#8217;s 612-megawatt facility, ranked among the world&#8217;s biggest AI data centres, abandons plan to cool servers with recycled water as &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has abandoned plans to cool its planned S7 data center in Sydney, Australia, with recycled water. OpenAI nixed the plans in favor of a closed-loop liquid cooling system. According to a report in Reuters, Developers of a massive data centre OpenAI wants to build in Australia have abandoned plans to cool it with recycled water, switching to a more \u200benergy-intensive method that undercuts government efforts to curb the booming sector&#8217;s drain on resources.<\/p>\n<p>The 612-megawatt &#8216;S7&#8217; facility, planned as one of the largest data hubs in the world, initially aimed to tap Sydney\u2019s treated wastewater to chill its servers, which would have reduced dependence on potable water sources and significantly lowered the cooling system&#8217;s energy requirements. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has abandoned plans to cool its planned S7 data center in Sydney, Australia, with recycled water. OpenAI nixed the plans in favor of a closed-loop liquid cooling system. According to a report in Reuters, Developers of a massive data centre OpenAI wants to build in Australia have abandoned plans to cool it with recycled water, switching to a more \u200benergy-intensive method that undercuts government efforts to curb the booming sector&#8217;s drain on resources. The 612-megawatt &#8216;S7&#8217; facility, planned as one of the largest data hubs in the world, initially aimed to tap Sydney\u2019s treated wastewater to chill its servers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029320,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029319\/revisions\/1029320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}