In progress
Closed-loop cooling as a permit condition
Evaporative cooling is not a default in dry basins.
No compiled flow or public database names this control yet.
Who should own it
Data-centre operators
Enterprises
How quickly it can land
Months
A planned program, one to two quarters.
Expedited implementation
2 months
60 calendar days with a crash team
Normal implementation
7 months
210 calendar days as a planned program
Risk this mitigates
16Given that AI data centres are already being cited by officials as a water-and-grid crisis, and household rates are being raised to underwrite them, there is a possibility of training and inference load outrunning local water, power, and political consent resulting in blackouts, agricultural water loss, and a public that experiences AI as a utility bill.
Residual composite 16 · still above the threshold
Effect if implemented
Applied to every failure scenario on that risk, then re-ranked. Axes are clamped at 1.
- Likelihood
- −1
- Consequence
- −1
- Urgency
- −0