The energy demands of AI infrastructure are growing faster than clean energy can scale. Wind, solar, and nuclear offer lower fresh water footprints, but none can meet the immediate rapid expansion of ...

Figure 1. A closed-circuit cooler. Photos courtesy of Evapco. It’s a common question during the early design phase of large mechanical systems: Is open- or closed-loop cooling equipment better suited ...

The second case study in this series had a system configuration depicted in Figure 1. The condenser water system had heat trace on the outdoor piping as well as a basin heater in the cooling tower.

Meta Platforms (META) has broken ground on its artificial intelligence data center in Beaver Dam, Wis., marking it as its 30th global data center, the Facebook creator announced today. Beaver Dam is ...

The column on dry cooling in the October issue of Power Engineering (“The Hot and Cold of Dry Cooling”) is most interesting, revealing and timely. As a power plant design engineer, this is a subject ...

Hybrid and dry cooling systems for natural gas turbine power plants are often touted as water-saving alternatives, but they are still far from waterless. Hybrid configurations still consume 50 to 150 ...