COMMISSIONING FOR THE WORLD ’ S FIRST ZERO-WATER CONSUMPTION DATA CENTRE
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In a time when data centres are multiplying rapidly — requiring significant water input while scarcity rises — developing technologies to mitigate water use in data centres is paramount . At the Port of Stockton in northern California , Nautilus Data Technologies ’ ( Nautilus ) commercial floating watercooled data centre combines efficiency with resourcefulness in the use of its patented TRUE™ ( Total Resource Usage Effectiveness ) technology that mitigates wasted water and energy .
Black & Veatch conducted a third-party due diligence report and commissioning oversight for the seven-megawatt facility and verified that the cooling , electrical and machinery systems functioned as designed . By using recirculated water from a nearby ocean , river or lake to cool the data centre environment , the water body becomes a heat sink . Therefore , the facility consumes no water , produces no wastewater , and requires no refrigerants or water treatment chemicals , cooling towers or computer room air handlers .
The technology uses less than one-third of the power that traditional computer room air-conditioning would use for cooling and has a low validated power utilisation effectiveness for a commercial data centre of its size . By siting the data centre on a barge , Nautilus also can reduce the facility footprint by up to 60 %, and that modular build design allows Nautilus to deploy additional facilities in the same area , using the same connectivity and much of the backbone infrastructure .
66 October 2022