Power + Water Stewardship
Power and water, engineered as one system
Resilient growth requires power and water systems designed together. These projects pair new generation and grid capacity with closed-loop cooling, reclamation, and watershed investment, turning adaptation from a planning premise into operating infrastructure.
Google · Colorado River
Piping irrigation to sustain Lake Mead
Google, the Colorado River Indian Tribes, and the Bureau of Reclamation replaced open irrigation ditches with buried pipe across Tribal farmland, cutting seepage and evaporation. The project saves more than 10 billion gallons a year, water left in the Colorado River system to support Lake Mead levels and Tribal needs.
Colorado RiverComplete
Crusoe / Stargate · Abilene, TX
West Texas wind and closed-loop cooling
The Stargate campus draws primarily on West Texas wind through ERCOT, with backup-only GE Vernova gas turbines fitted with selective catalytic reduction. Cooling runs on a non-evaporative closed loop that rejects heat without consuming water, avoiding the evaporative draw typical of large AI data centers.
Non-evaporative loopUnder construction
Apple · Maiden, NC
On-site solar and renewable generation
Apple's Maiden campus pairs large on-site solar arrays with biogas fuel-cell generation and outside-air cooling, matching facility load with Apple-developed renewable capacity rather than relying on grid green attributes alone.
On-site renewablesOperational
AWS Project Rainier · New Carlisle, IN
Self-funded grid upgrades and outside-air cooling
AWS's Trainium campus draws from Indiana Michigan Power, an AEP company, with Amazon covering the transmission and substation upgrades its load requires rather than passing them to other ratepayers. The 2.2-gigawatt campus cools on outside air 97 to 98 percent of the year, drawing water only 2 to 3 percent of the time.
Outside-air coolingIn progress