WaterOperating

Closed-loop liquid cooling

Runs a sealed closed-loop liquid cooling system that recirculates coolant with negligible make-up water, decoupling compute density from water draw.

Open planner →Cost bandHighIllustrative Example

Where it applies

Applicability of Closed-loop liquid cooling across climate, water stress, land context, and community scale.
ClimateColdapplicableTemperateapplicableAridapplicableTropicalapplicable
Water stressLowapplicableMediumapplicableHighapplicable
Land contextGreenfieldapplicableDegradedapplicableBrownfieldapplicableUrbanapplicable
Community scaleRuralapplicableTownapplicableMetroapplicable

Five Capitals contribution

  • Natural3
  • Human0
  • Social1
  • Built1
  • Financial0

0–5 illustrative weighting of how this intervention builds each capital. Illustrative Example.

PrecedentOperating

Verified operating project(s), externally cited.

Industry practice; Meta El Paso closed-loop

Case studies1

Meta El Paso closed-loop

Operating

Meta · El Paso, Texas, USA

FigureValueSource
Designclosed-loop, minimal make-up watermedium conf.El Paso cooling (citation)

Meta’s El Paso facility uses closed-loop liquid cooling, an operating example of near-zero-water high-density cooling in an arid region.

How it maps hereOPERATING; SYN-WATER-adjacent; strong arid-site lever.

Sources

  • Meta El Paso closed-loop coolingMeta

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