Data-center water use and the standard cooling design
- Water for industry
- Industrial water, wells and discharges
- Audited
The dominant model is to avoid water: free cooling and closed circuits. GTD (an operator with data centers in Chile, Peru and Colombia; the source mentions only Peru and 11 data centers in the region, not Guatemala) declares WUE = 0 across all its data centers, with air cooling and closed chilled-water circuits and no dependence on the grid or on wells: it is a regional design reference, not a local case. Tigo Business operates 'Fraijanes II' with a Tier III Certification of Design Documents from the Uptime Institute (the audit corrected 'Tier IV'); its water consumption is not disclosed, nor is that of Claro's data centers. The only Tier IV registered by Uptime in Guatemala is KIO/GUA (KIO Networks), design only. Given the overexploitation of the metropolitan aquifer, a hyperscaler using evaporative cooling would face physical and reputational risk; dry design is the de facto local standard.
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Figures
- WUE declared by GTD (Chile, Peru, Colombia)
- 0
- Tigo Fraijanes II certification
- Tier III Certification of Design Documents
- Only Tier IV registered in Guatemala
- KIO/GUA (KIO Networks), design only
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Sources
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Related records
- Absence of a general water law and national extraction fee
- Right to drill a well and ownership of the water (Civil Code)
- Industrial self-supply and the 2,000 wells of Guatemala's valley
- Procedure to drill an industrial well in the metropolitan area
- Cost and regulation of the municipal well-drilling license
- MARN environmental license costs and categories
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