Electricity enables AI growth, but water constraints are emerging as a decisive factor in data center siting and approval.

Ensuring the availability of water for power plants is a matter of both water quantity and quality. As freshwater becomes less available for power plant use, new supplies from marginal or impaired ...

In the wake of a recent federal case, large power plants are off the hook for now as far as complying with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2004 rule intended to protect fish and ...

Surging use of AI has led to a frenzy of construction activity to build new data centres, particularly in the U.S. Estimates ...

Cooling towers are a grubby fact of data center life. Water is cycled through them, and they reject heat, either by evaporation or through a heat exchanger in a “dry” cooling tower. Traditional ...

Digital Realty is using electrolysis to clean the water used in a cooling tower in Singapore, saving more than a million liters of water per month. The company is treating cooling water at its SIN10 ...

Combined cycle power plants have become in large measure the de facto replacement for the many coal plants that are being retired. A particular aspect of these new plants is that they are often ...

Cooling systems offer an ideal environment for microbiological fouling. Take steps now to look for and treat scaling and fouling. The Second Law of Thermodynamics clearly states it is impossible to ...

The Main engine jacket water cooling system is a critical part of an efficient marine engine operation. The machinery systems ...

Air cooling and water cooling are the two main temperature control options for your home computer. And if you’re the type of person who enjoys building your PC from the ground up, you’ll know just how ...