Delta data center company claims it can create new water, commissions U of U study to verify
Creekstone Energy, a data center developer in Delta, Utah, claims to have developed a technology that can create water by burning natural gas. The company has commissioned the University of Utah to verify if this science can work at scale, with hopes of generating 4,000 acre-feet of water per year.
Creekstone Energy, the developer behind a massive 10-gigawatt AI data center in Delta, Utah, asserts it has devised a groundbreaking method to generate water from the combustion of natural gas. The company's CEO explained the process involves combusting natural gas in an underground pipe, where the byproduct then cools on a series of large rocks, creating condensation. This water is subsequently collected by a rubber mat-like product. The CEO likened the process to water observed coming from car tailpipes due to hot gas condensing on a cold surface.
Creekstone Energy has commissioned the University of Utah's Energy & Geoscience Institute (EGI) to conduct an independent study to verify the chemistry and scalability of this technology. The company anticipates producing 4,000 acre-feet of water per year, which, after treatment, could potentially be used for agricultural purposes like watering fields or growing alfalfa. If proven successful, the CEO expressed hopes of deploying this water-generation technology at other data centers.