WATER RISK INTELLIGENCE FOR DATA CENTER OPERATORS

Know your water risk before the permit hearing does.

AquaSure scores site-level water risk for colocation and hyperscale facilities. Basin stress, drought exposure, hazard risk, and water use intensity, combined into a single 0-10 audit built on federal data, with every input traced back to its source.

DATA FROM  USGS · NOAA · FEMA NATIONAL RISK INDEX · WRI AQUEDUCT
SITE RISK COMPARISONAQUASURE SCORE
PHOENIX, AZ
7.6
Basin stress8.2
Drought frequency7.9
Hazard exposure6.4
Use intensity7.1
SALT LAKE CITY, UT
6.8
DALLAS, TX
5.9
ATLANTA, GA
4.7
COLUMBUS, OH
4.1
SCORED ON USGS · NOAA · FEMA NRI · WRI AQUEDUCT

Power was the constraint. Water is next.

$130B
in AI data center projects delayed or rejected in Q1 2026 amid local opposition
Data Center Watch
660M gal
consumed daily by US data centers for cooling, on track to exceed 1 billion by 2028
EESI
14+ states
where local governments enacted data center moratoriums in 2026
MultiState

Siting decisions used to belong to your development team. Now they involve a county commission, a state permitting office, and a hyperscale tenant's RFP questionnaire, and all three of them ask about water. Minnesota created a separate water permitting requirement for data centers. Denver passed a one-year moratorium on new data center zoning permits in May 2026. Most operators find out where a site really stands after the capital is already committed.

A site audit you can hand to a permitting consultant.

Not a dashboard login. A report.

  1. 01
    The AquaSure Score.
    A 0-10 composite with a risk band and a plain-English reading. Phoenix scores differently than Columbus, and the report shows you exactly why.
  2. 02
    Component breakdown.
    Basin stress, drought frequency, hazard exposure, and water use intensity, each scored and weighted on its own.
  3. 03
    Source traceability matrix.
    Every input, its origin dataset, its resolution, and a reliability rating. Nothing hidden.
  4. 04
    Comparative siting view.
    Score multiple candidate sites against each other on the same basis.
  5. 05
    Delivered as a PDF.
    Something you can forward to your board, a tenant, or counsel without anyone needing a login.
AquaSure PDF site audit report showing the Phoenix score of 7.6 out of 10 and component breakdown

How the score works.

01
Define the site.
Coordinates plus expected water use intensity. If you have a target WUE we use it. If not, we model it from the facility profile.
02
Pull the data.
Federal and institutional datasets, resolved to the finest granularity each source supports.
03
Score the composite.
A weighted model across stress, drought, hazard, and intensity, calibrated so high-risk sites separate from each other instead of all pinning at the ceiling.
04
Trace every input.
Each data point carries its source and a reliability rating into the final report.
BASELINE WATER STRESS BY STATE · ACTIVE DATA CENTER MARKETS

A score you can't defend in a hearing is a score you can't use. That's why traceability is a deliverable and not a footnote.

USGS
Water withdrawal and availability
RESOLUTION
County
NOAA
Drought frequency and severity
RESOLUTION
State
FEMA National Risk Index
Natural hazard exposure
RESOLUTION
County
WRI Aqueduct
Baseline basin water stress
RESOLUTION
State

Resolution reflects current adapter coverage. County-level expansion is in progress.

See a real audit before you talk to us.

A complete Phoenix, Arizona site audit with the full score breakdown, component weights, and the traceability matrix. Generated from live data, not a template.

One email with the PDF. No sequence, no drip. If you want to talk, you'll reach out.

Built for the people who pick the site.

Site selection and development.
Rank candidate locations on water risk before you are deep in diligence on the wrong one.
Sustainability and ESG leads.
Sourced water risk data that maps to CDP Water Security and GRI 303 reporting instead of sitting in its own silo.
Colocation operators.
Answer the water question in tenant RFPs with a number and a source, before the tenant asks it.

Questions we get asked.

Aqueduct tells you a basin is stressed. It does not tell you what that means for a 40MW facility with a specific cooling profile, and it does not combine basin stress with drought frequency, hazard exposure, and your own water use intensity into one defensible number. AquaSure does that integration at the site level and shows the working. If a basin stress lookup is all you need, use Aqueduct. It is one of our inputs. We are also not a replacement for your environmental consultant. We are what you hand them on day one, so they start from a scored baseline instead of a blank page.

Send us one site. We'll score it.

Give us coordinates and an expected load profile and you will get back a full audit. The first site is free, so you can judge the output before anything else comes up.