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Atlanta data-center cooling-water restriction remains held in committee

The proposal would require closed-loop cooling and restrict routine use of potable city water at Atlanta facilities and facilities served through certain wholesale agreements.

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City context: Atlanta City Hall, photographed March 23, 2019. Editorial illustration. The source photograph provides municipal context, not a view of a data-center site or evidence of the proposal’s adoption.Editorial illustration · Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States

Atlanta’s City Utilities Committee held an ordinance Sept. 15 that would require data centers in the city, and those served through wholesale or intergovernmental city-water agreements, to transition to closed-loop cooling. It would prohibit potable municipal water for routine data-center cooling operations; the hold did not enact either requirement.

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The proposal addresses new and existing facilities, directs the Department of Watershed Management to incorporate requirements into applicable permits and water-related agreements, and allows exemptions in limited circumstances. The minutes listed a Sept. 21 next meeting, but do not establish its outcome.

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