Greater Western Water has announced it will supply Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) soon-to-be-built facility in western Melbourne with recycled water that it will use to cool its data centre.
The Melton Recycled Water Plant (RWP) at Mt Cottrell will become the first in the state to deliver recycled water to a data centre.
As demand for digital services grows, so does the need for data centres. The agreement between Greater Western Water and AWS shows the way forward. It follows a new Industry water connection guide published earlier this year, developed to help businesses understand how to access and connect to water, sewerage and recycled water services.
Urban water corporations carefully assess all new water connection and expansion requests to ensure that existing customers will not be adversely affected. Planned future customers are also considered, ensuring that network upgrades or allocation decisions today do not limit the ability to meet anticipated urban growth or impact on environmental water.
Investment in using more recycled water across Victoria continues to grow. Much of this development is kickstarted through the Integrated Water Management program.
Melton plant leads the way with first recycled water connection for a Victorian data centre.
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