Data Center Dynamics visits Gradiant’s Global Innovation Center in Houston to explore how HyperSolved helps data centers grow without competing with communities for drinking water.

Water has become a boardroom issue for data center operators. In its September issue, DCD Magazine looks at whether closed-loop systems can resolve the industry’s water challenge, and profiles Gradiant as a key player in the market.

Zachary Skidmore toured Gradiant’s Houston R&D center and spoke with Anurag Bajpayee, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman. The story traces Gradiant’s path from water treatment research at MIT to an end-to-end water partner for the semiconductor and data center industries.

The article details how HyperSolved, Gradiant’s data center water platform, works:

• Source-agnostic treatment turns wastewater and other non-potable sources into water fit for cooling.
• 95%+ water recovery, with minimum or zero liquid discharge.
• Modular, containerized systems scale with phased data center builds.
• Smart Ops, an AI layer, adjusts treatment in real time for efficiency, cost and reliability.

“You cannot build data centers in the desert in the US without having a proactive water strategy…We can find wastewater from the community that isn’t readily usable and make that pure enough for data center operations,” — Anurag Bajpayee

Read the full story on Data Center Dynamics.