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A briefcase that turns seawater into drinking water, and the technology behind it could help data centers cut their water consumption in half.
Recording on the road at the Future Bridge High Density Power AI Conference in Dallas, Eric and Lance sit down with Bruce, CEO of Nona Technologies, a company that started with an MIT invention and portable desalination systems for the military.
Bruce explains how Nona uses electricity to separate dissolved salts from water, why its system recovers 90% of the water it treats, and how removing minerals from cooling tower water lets operators reuse water they would otherwise send down the drain. His pitch for existing evaporative cooling systems: 30 to 50% less water consumption, an installation without shutting down cooling, and a system that typically pays for itself in three years.
Plus the brackish water opportunity in West Texas, the tradeoffs between reverse osmosis and Nona’s approach, and why a refrigerator sized unit could change the economics of data center cooling. The guys also get into PUE, the power plant water consumption that gets left out of the conversation, and why saving water on site does not always mean saving water across the whole system.
Bruce’s advice for young people closes the show. Set big goals, work on something that matters, and pick a problem worth spending your life solving.
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