A cool partnership
- Did you know that Singapore is the second most popular country for hosting data center facilities? The country’s industrial sector uses as much as 55% of the nation’s water resources, and this number is expected to rise to 70% by the year 2060.
- Data centers consume significant amounts of computing energy, which require an equally high amount of water resources to fuel power-hungry servers. For example, OpenAI’s ChatGPT consumes 500ml of water for every 5 to 50 prompts it answers. As generative AI adoption gains traction, this usage of water is expected to rise further.
- That’s why 500-backed wastewater tech company Hydroleap partnered with IX Technology (IXT), a provider of data center infrastructure solutions, to promote a more sustainable future for data center operations.
- How? Founder & CEO Dr. Mohammad (Moh) Sherafatmand shared, “Efficient cooling methods with lowered water consumption can play an important role in sustainability. We are thrilled to join forces with IXT to support more data center companies through our sustainable electrochemical solutions. By combining our teams, we aim to empower data center businesses to be more sustainable in their water consumption.”
- Hydroleap’s patented electrochemical technology is currently being used by large blue-chip data centers and semiconductor companies in Singapore, Malaysia, and Vietnam.
- Not only that, the team is automating solutions that are robust, cost-effective and environmentally friendly. Their technology is capable of reducing as much as 95% of the pollutants that are generally found in industrial wastewater while reducing water discharges by 70% in the cooling towers.
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