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CAPABILITIES / DEFINED DEVELOPMENT SCOPE

Water & cooling

A water and cooling system that works under the conditions that matter.

We connect the cooling basis to source, treatment, storage, discharge and provider obligations. The objective is a supportable service arrangement and delivery route, not a larger supply request or an isolated efficiency claim.

When to engage us

Engage us when a supply conversation is advancing but the service solution is not, or when a tenant's cooling choice changes the power, land or wastewater case. We identify the limiting operating condition before the team commits to incompatible systems.

What we work from

  • Engineer-developed phase water balances, cooling requirements and peak operating cases
  • Supply and wastewater provider responses, source information and applicable drought or service restrictions
  • Site layout, treatment assumptions, discharge chemistry, capital contributions and tenant change rights

01 / ENGAGEMENT ENDPOINTS

Choose the result you need.

These are distinct scopes, not an automatic three-stage contract. The engagement defines the selected endpoint, deliverables, authority and acceptance criteria.

01

Decision ready

You receive A source-to-discharge options comparison and a common demand basis reviewed by the relevant specialists.

Acceptance The owner understands peak and restricted-service exposure, lifecycle costs and the operating consequences of each feasible route.

02

Ready to execute

You receive A selected service and infrastructure route with responsible asset owners, funding, required approvals and design interfaces.

Acceptance Providers and project teams are working from the same demand case; unresolved permissions are explicit release conditions.

03

Ready to operate

You receive Closure of the agreed connection, operating responsibility and acceptance interfaces.

Acceptance The operator accepts the documented operating envelope and receives the required provider, permit and test evidence.

02 / WORK PRODUCTS

Make the work tangible.

Operating-envelope comparison
Bring normal, peak, startup and restricted-service cases into one record. Qualified designers establish temperatures, flows, quality and failure responses. Sitebraid identifies where a provider limit or tenant change exceeds that basis and the decision needed to close it.
Source-to-discharge responsibility map
Identify who supplies, treats, stores, transports, receives and operates each part of the system. Map contracts and physical boundaries separately. A source commitment does not fill an unassigned conveyance or wastewater scope.
Whole-system cost and change model
Compare supply charges, treatment, pumping, heat rejection, power demand, discharge and future expansion. Carry minimum service payments and delayed-tenant exposure. Record which changes require a new provider or engineering review.

ILLUSTRATIVE DECISION / NOT A CLIENT RESULT

The judgment behind the scope

Illustrative decision: a lower-water cooling option reduces makeup demand but increases peak electrical demand and concentrates the remaining discharge. We would not recommend it on water savings alone. The selected route must fit the provider's acceptance conditions, the electrical allocation and the engineer's thermal case. If the revised discharge or hot-day load is unsupported, preserve the original option or reduce the phase until that constraint is resolved.

03 / TEXAS EXECUTION

Turn the Texas context into project actions.

Reviewed September 10, 2026. These are development interfaces, not project-specific legal opinions. Counsel and qualified specialists confirm applicability and current requirements.

Separate the source from the service right

Texas surface-water use has a water-rights framework. We have counsel and providers establish the applicable source authority, groundwater considerations where relevant, retail-service position and physical delivery chain before treating supply as secured.

TCEQ surface-water rights and permits

Check the actual utility's cooling and discharge requirements

Fort Worth reports adopted water requirements for new data centers in its utility service area. We confirm the applicable local instruments and compare the proposed cooling basis with the serving provider, rather than importing another city's requirements.

Fort Worth: adopted requirements versus proposed data center regulations

Who owns what

Sitebraid owns the development alternatives, provider interfaces, asset responsibilities and agreed closure plan. Engineers establish water balance and thermal performance; environmental specialists and counsel confirm authorizations; the owner approves investment and the operator accepts the operating basis.

Qualify the engagement

Agree who supplies technical inputs, who can negotiate provider terms and which evidence constitutes acceptance. Relevant experience is discussed directly with the proposed team. Illustrative methods on this site are not claimed operating installations.