# Meta — Debunking the Biggest Data Center Myths

- Company: Meta (meta.com)
- Announced: 2026-10-08T16:53:24+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://about.fb.com/news/2026/10/debunking-the-biggest-data-center-myths/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/17068-debunking-the-biggest-data-center-myths
- Subject: Meta AI

Meta addressed common misconceptions about data center water use, explaining how its two facility types cool their systems. The post distinguishes air-cooled compute data centers, which use water for only a few months a year, from AI-optimized closed-loop liquid-cooled data centers, which circulate a sealed water and glycol mixture. It also notes that the author visited two types of Meta data centers over the past few months.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://about.fb.com/news/2026/10/debunking-the-biggest-data-center-myths/:

> These facilities circulate a water and glycol mixture around a closed-loop system, meaning that the cooling loop is sealed, so water isn’t consumed as part of the cooling process.

---

Record: https://forck.live/items/17068-debunking-the-biggest-data-center-myths
Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt
Current issue: https://forck.live/feed.md