Cooling and Water
Immersion cooling submerges IT equipment or components in dielectric fluid to remove heat. It can support high heat densities, but it changes operations, hardware compatibility, maintenance, fluid handling, and code considerations.
Water rights are legal rights to withdraw, consume, or use water. They matter for data center site selection because availability, priority, transferability, drought risk, and local politics can constrain water-intensive cooling strategies.
Read definition →Demand response is a customer or aggregator program that reduces load in response to price, reliability events, or dispatch signals. Critical data center load is hard to curtail, but batteries, cooling thermal inertia, backup systems, or flexible compute may create limited opportunities.
Read definition →Deliverable power is the amount of power that can actually be served to a site at the required reliability, voltage, timing, and cost. For powered land, deliverable power is the critical distinction between a marketing claim and a financeable site.
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