Bingo 🎯
If there is such concern about the water usage of data centers, pass laws that require them to build near the Gulf or oceans and require them to put in a desalination plant and produce their own water from saltwater,just as Saudi Arabia does daily. I mean, we are allowing them to build their own power plants. Just require that they build a desalination facility on the coast and pipe the water to wherever the data center is located; problem solved.
The most important innovation for desalination isn’t the hardware.
It’s the financial engineering to create fluid markets that value water generation.
Municipalities don’t need to develop and finance their own desalination plants.
They just need to create the market:
1. Certify each cubic meter of *additive* water delivered in-basin (desal, reclaim) as a water credit.
2. Developers who finance and build desal plants *earn credits* when real water is delivered.
3. Corporates buy credits so they can own and get credit for desalinated water that *offsets withdrawals*.
Water credits are a financial tool for creating more water. WaterLAB is the certification layer.
bingo
The next generation of industrial sites should treat water the way sophisticated developers increasingly treat power: as part of the design, not an input to procure later.
Potable water. Reuse. Industrial wastewater. Brackish water. Desalination.
Different uses require different solutions.
The competitive site isn't simply where water exists. It's where the right water can be delivered reliably at the right quality and cost.
Hiring update: we brought on Charlie Morewater as our new Chief of Staff (24/7).
Job description:
• Make more water
• Make more meetings optional
• Make water scarcity a relic of the past
He doesn’t sleep. He thinks in cubic meters. He knows water scarcity is a hoax.
Welcome, Charlie - you are a perfect fit for the WL team. Cc @maritan_twt
Solar and wind scaled because renewable energy credits turned clean generation into something buyers could purchase and projects could finance.
Water generation needs the same stack.
WaterLAB: in-basin water credits for cubic meters that didn’t exist until a plant made them.
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Water generation (via desalination) suffers from a major distribution constraint (much worse than power) - water can only be moved where there are existing pipelines / aqueducts and it requires lengthy regulatory approvals.
Overcoming the distribution challenge requires a new water purchase model that allows the value of water to be moved separate from the physical molecules. But the model has already been invented - power purchase agreements (PPA's) have been used for decades to buy & sell power (electricity) and power credits, separately.
As soon as the industry recognizes that the same model can be applied to water, it will solve scarcity - buying water credits provides the financing that water generation projects require and local municipalities will benefit greatly from the additional physical water that is added to the overall supply. This will ultimately create abundance and drive the cost of water down.
We don’t need to use less water.
We need to eliminate scarcity as the focus.
Mass scale desal - flood the market with MORE water.
Water too cheap to meter.
Cities are literally running out of water - but are expected to be excited about a hyperscale data center.
Tokenizing water is only a problem if it is scarce - it is not and trading it for profits will set it free
Tokenization Of H₂O: Elites Are Claiming The World's Water Supply & Plan To Trade It zerohedge.com/geopolitical/t…
Not if we tokenize it first and give it back to the people
Tokenization Of H₂O: Elites Are Claiming The World's Water Supply & Plan To Trade It zerohedge.com/geopolitical/t…
