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Facebook Unveils Water Projects to Support $800 Million Mesa Data Center

By Rich Miller - August 12, 2021

An illustration of the planned $800 million Facebook data center campus in Mesa, Arizona. (Image: Facebook)

Facebook announced a series of major investments in water conservation as it confirmed plans for an $800 million data center campus in Mesa, Arizona. The project had brought national attention to the data center industry’s stewardship of scarce water resources in drought-stricken areas.

Tagged With: Facebook, Mesa, Phoenix, Water, water management

Drought, Extreme Heat Sharpen Focus on Data Center Water Usage

By Rich Miller - June 30, 2021

Extreme heat and drought in the Western US is bringing sharper scrutiny of data center water use, and testing assumptions about climate in some data center destinations. The heightened awareness of water constraints is raising the bar for data center developers.

Tagged With: Chemstar Water, Nalco Water, Nortek, Water, water management

How Aligned Saves 24 Million Gallons of Water a Year in Phoenix

By Sarah Rubenoff - August 31, 2020

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Data centers are known for large amounts of water and power usage. In fact, it takes a tremendous amount of  energy and water to power and cool any data center. That’s according to a new report from Aligned Energy, that outlines how the company installed a soft water program to its fluid cooler system at its Phoenix data center to save 24 million gallons of water a year.

Tagged With: Aligned, Cost of water, featured whitepaper, Phoenix, Phoenix Data Center Market, water management

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Overcoming Supply Chain Roadblocks: How to Avoid Disruptions in Your Data Center

Overcoming Supply Chain Roadblocks: How to Avoid Disruptions in Your Data Center The data center industry continues to experience significant global supply chain problems. Brett Williams of Service Express, explores the importance of leveraging the secondary hardware market to overcome supply chain roadblocks.

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Liquid immersion

Approaching the Heat Limit with Liquid Immersion Technology

Liquid cooling offers a less costly and more sustainable alternative and recent advances in the technology and its deployment are driving change across the industry. This white paper from TMGcore explores some of the opportunities and limitations of liquid immersion cooling.

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Edge Computing is Poised to Remake the Data Center Landscape

Data center leaders are investing in edge computing and edge solutions and actively looking at new ways to deploy edge capacity to support evolving business and user requirements.

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Northern Virginia Data Center Market: The Focal Point for Cloud Growth

The Northern Virginia data center market is seeing a surge in supply and an even bigger surge in demand. Data Center Frontier explores trends, stats and future expectations for the No. 1 data center market in the country.

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