Data center designed to use up to 3 million gallons on Salem’s hottest days Water usage projections for the proposed data center at Mill Creek Corporate Center showed the data center could use up to 3 million gallons per day and a projected annual total of 39 million gallons. Company officials said the data center would only use water for cooling on the hottest days of the year. Currently, the entire city of Salem uses about 25 million gallons of water per day. The projections were shared with city… 15 Comments Leave a Reply You must be logged in to post a comment. Which city officials was this info given to? please check: “3 million gallons per day, or roughly 39 million gallons annually. “. 🤔 There’s a math problem in the first paragraph. Three million gallons per day is a lot more than 39 million gallons annually. It’s “up to,” so not 3M every day. The annual cap is not a product of the daily cap. It’s still absurd, since a mere six days of very hot temperates would blow through nearly have the annual cap, and because details of the proposal were hidden, we don’t know what would have happened when they bump up against their annual cap. Exactly. One figure I would accept if they paid for infrastructure to support it and one absolutely no way! “The first phase of a proposed multi-phased project”. City management has dug us a huge grave to be buried in. Verrus doesn’t care about the residence, they care about profit over anything. This information would have been swept under the rug and their company would have stayed quiet when residence experienced issues. What years did they run the water usage analysis, the 80’s? If they’d care they’d have seen how Oregon