Data Center Infrastructure Podcast - Ep 6 - Saving Water Via Desalination with Nona Technologies

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About a third of the water a traditional cooling tower consumes never cools anything. This episode is about the machine that fixes that. Recording at the Future Bridge High Density Power Conference in Dallas, Eric and Lance meet their first walk up guest. Bruce Crawford, CEO and co-founder of Nona Technologies, an MIT spinout that started with briefcase-sized units turning seawater into drinking water for the military and now builds refrigerator-sized units that can cut a data center's water consumption roughly in half, counting both the site and the power plant behind it. Bruce breaks down cycles of concentration, and the third of tower water sacrificed down the drain, the electrode…