Novva Data Centers has built and operated a portfolio of four purpose-built waterless data center facilities across the Western United States — in West Jordan, Utah; Colorado Springs, Colorado; North Las Vegas, Nevada; and Storey County, Nevada (Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center). Every Novva facility uses the company’s proprietary water-free cooling system, which combines ambient desert air cooling, refrigeration via closed-loop chiller, and direct-to-chip liquid cooling for high-density workloads — without drawing from municipal water supplies for cooling purposes. Novva’s fourth facility, the Tahoe-Reno campus, opened in late 2024 and deploys water-free direct-to-chip cooling for AI workloads alongside robot dog facility monitoring. With 1 GW of total capacity in development across four pipeline projects, Novva is the most geographically distributed waterless data center operator in the Western United States.
Fairfax County, Virginia: The Compliance Framework
Fairfax County, Virginia, adopted on September 10, 2024 what is widely regarded as the most comprehensive data center noise and siting ordinance in the United States. It was developed after months of contentious public hearings, [...]
Immersion & Liquid Cooling: The Near-Silent Data Center
The fundamental source of data center community noise complaints is air movement: the high-speed fans required to push large volumes of air through server racks and exhaust heat to the exterior. These fans are noisy [...]
Amazon Web Services Great Oak Retrofit
The Amazon Great Oak data center complex in Prince William County, Virginia, represents the most thoroughly documented noise response case in U.S. data center history. It is not a success story without complications — and [...]