Anaheim, Calif.-based Tomorrow Water and its parent company, BKT Co., a wastewater treatment and sustainable waste management solutions company, have launched an initiative to develop co-located water resource recovery facilities (WRRFs) and data centers.
Tomorrow Water’s research finds that data centers can improve power and water use effectiveness when co-located with existing and planned WRRFs that have treatment capacities of more than 10 million gallons per day.
According to US EPA’s Clean Watersheds Needs Survey (CWNS) data, by 2032, there will be an estimated 900 WRRFs in that capacity range in the United States alone. Tomorrow Water estimates that between 900 and 1,500 data centers could be built on these sites by just retrofitting primary clarifiers into space-saving compact advanced filtration systems.
The United States is home to the world’s greatest number of data centers, accounting for 70 billion kilowatt hours of electric energy, or 2 percen