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Data Center Water Solutions
Treat water availability as a site constraint before it becomes a schedule constraint.
Decision Framework
What a project team should evaluate
01
Quantify demand
Start with cooling architecture, seasonal demand, water quality and operating profile.
02
Understand local exposure
Municipal capacity, drought, discharge limits and community concerns can affect site viability.
03
Evaluate supplemental supply
Atmospheric water generation and recovery can be evaluated where climate, scale and economics fit.
04
Integrate with cooling
Water decisions affect heat rejection and energy use, so they should not be modeled in isolation.
05
Plan resilience
Storage, redundancy and source diversity can reduce dependence on a single water source.