AS data centers confront growing challenges in sustainability and resource use, across the United States and around the world, a clear-eyed view of water use is still the missing ingredient in delivering on an array of operational objectives—from efficiency and sustainability, to operational excellence and business continuity, to financial performance.

Most data center designers, owners, and operators pay close attention to water consumption at point of use, limited only to the water used within the four walls of the data center. However, they often miss the water-energy nexus where they can gain a deeper understanding of their full environmental impact—and, crucially, come up with the best opportunities to control it.

Read this whitepaper to explore a more rigorous approach to resource efficiency, that in turn, delivers on the cost performance that end users expect. Optimizing water and energy use, which increases the available electricity for IT loads by decreasing the amount needed to power ancillary systems such as cooling.