Quenching Big-data's Thirst: A Novel Water Recycling Strategy for Datacenter Cooling & Community Reuse

Data centers will compete with other growing businesses for space, energy and water. This will pose a real challenge to build data center in locations where water supply sources and spaces are limited such as California, Arizona and Nevada. Tomorrow Water (TW) in partnership with Arcadis has developed CoFlow™ concept along with a patent pending cooling approach to build DCs at water reclamation/water resource recovery facilities which creates space for data center, eliminates potable water demand and significantly reduces energy consumptions for cooling. A desktop study has completed by Arcadis to assess the technical and economic feasibility of CoFlow™ for a large data center provider. The study indicated that CoFlow was feasible and economically attractive option for reducing water and carbon footprint of data center operation while generating a revenue stream from the land lease