Our Position

    AI without the
    environmental debt.

    Communities should never have to trade their water, their power bills, or their climate for AI capacity. ReVenture stands publicly for data center infrastructure that gives back more than it takes.

    The Problem

    The current trajectory is not sustainable — and the communities pay first.

    945 TWh

    Projected global data center electricity demand by 2030 — more than double 2024.

    1–5M

    Gallons of water a single hyperscale data center can draw per day for evaporative cooling.

    ~98%

    Of energy entering a conventional data center is dissipated as waste heat, most of it vented to atmosphere.

    Global Demand

    Data center electricity demand (TWh)

    Source: IEA, Energy and AI (2025).

    US Grid Share

    Data centers as % of US electricity use

    Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2024).

    Cooling Water Intensity

    Liters of water consumed per kWh of IT load

    Illustrative ranges across cooling technologies. Closed-loop and immersion approaches reduce on-site water draw by 80–95% versus conventional evaporative cooling.

    Our Principles

    Four non-negotiables for every data center we endorse or partner on.

    01

    Clean energy, produced on-site

    Solar, wind, geothermal, and emerging small modular nuclear paired with on-site storage — so growth in compute does not become growth in fossil load on the local grid.

    02

    Water is not a coolant of last resort

    Closed-loop liquid and immersion cooling replace evaporative towers in water-stressed regions. Where water is used, it is metered, reported, and returned at quality.

    03

    Waste heat becomes community heat

    Captured thermal output feeds district heating, greenhouses, aquaculture, and industrial processes — turning the single largest inefficiency into a second revenue stream.

    04

    Build benefits the host community

    Property tax structures, workforce pipelines, grid resilience contributions, and ratepayer protections written into the site agreement — not bolted on after construction.

    The Solutions

    These are not future technologies. They are deployed today.

    Every approach below is operating at commercial scale at multiple sites. The question is no longer whether sustainable data centers are possible — it is whether the next site you support demands them.

    01

    On-site clean generation + storage

    Behind-the-meter solar and wind, battery storage, and where viable, geothermal or SMR. Pairs with grid for resilience, not as primary load.

    In PracticeDeployed at scale by leading operators in Iowa, Nevada, and the Nordics.

    02

    Liquid and immersion cooling

    Direct-to-chip cold plates and full immersion baths cut water draw by 80–95% versus evaporative cooling and unlock higher rack densities for AI workloads.

    In PracticeAdopted in new hyperscale builds; standardized via Open Compute Project (OCP).

    03

    Waste-heat recovery

    Captured heat is piped to district heating networks, greenhouses, and industrial users. A growing share of new European builds are heat-export by design.

    In PracticeStockholm Data Parks, Helsinki Espoo network, Microsoft Dublin, Meta Odense.

    04

    Carbon-aware operations

    Workload scheduling, regional load shifting, and procurement of 24/7 matched clean energy — measured against the iMasons Climate Accord pound-per-pound carbon standard.

    In PracticeiMasons Climate Accord; Google 24/7 CFE; EU Energy Efficiency Directive Annex VII.

    Where We Stand

    ReVenture is a member of the organizations setting the standard.

    Position papers are easy. Accountability is harder. We hold our work — and the partners we recommend — to the published standards of the bodies below.

    Founding signatory commitment

    iMasons Climate Accord

    Industry coalition driving a unified carbon accounting standard across digital infrastructure — covering power, materials, and operations.

    Member

    Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA)

    European-rooted alliance advancing measurable sustainability standards for data centers and cloud operations.

    Member

    The Green Grid

    Originator of PUE and WUE — the metrics that made data center efficiency comparable and accountable.

    Member

    Open Compute Project — Sustainability

    Open hardware and facility standards for liquid cooling, heat recovery, and circular materials.

    Building, evaluating, or hosting a data center? Hold it to this standard.