Infomart Data Centers Completes Water Conservation Construction
Use of non-potable water in the facility's cooling infrastructure is designed to support environmental and conservation efforts in California's drought-stricken region.
Infomart Data Centers has announced it has completed construction on infrastructure necessary to utilize recycled water for cooling and landscape irrigation at its Silicon Valley data center. The Company's move to use non-potable, or "gray water," for 100 % of the mechanical infrastructure and irrigation surrounding the facility reduces costs and lowers its environmental impact.
Data centers have come under fire in recent years for the significant amount of water required to cool high-density server environments. According to one estimate, a 15 MW data center can use up to 360,000 gallons of water per day and drought conditions, such as in California, can exacerbate the delicate balance between a data center facility's water needs and limited resources.