The waterless data center

CEO of Immersion4, Serge Conesa, explains how the data center industry needs to act quickly and decisively if it is to meet its sustainability goals. Data centres should enable solutions that will significantly reduce the power draw of the data center without compromising its operational efficiency. To support power reduction measures, however, reducing water usage should also be a key goal.

Collectively, data centers are among the top-ten water-consuming industrial or commercial industries, severely impacting the supply of valuable drinking water in poorly-served regions. This presentation will discuss how immersion cooling technology can enable data centers to reduce water wastage to as low as zero per cent, and provides a real-life use case where water is utilized to power a vertical farm and provide fresh produce to the local community.

The Middle-East is one of the world’s poorest areas in terms of water resources per inhabitant. Given the severe limitations placed upon data centers in this region to avoid wasting water, Walid Bayoumi, Head of Infrastructure at Khazna Data Centers, describes how their facilities are designed to tackle the challenges they face in terms of water usage.

With innovative processes already in place at their Phoenix-Chandler campus, Kyle Myers, Head of Enviroment Health, Safety and Sustainability at Cyrus One, highlights how Water Usage Effectiveness is changing the game in terms of measuring efficiency, as well as some of the essential technologies enabling data centers to reduce water consumption.