Model Large-Load Data Center Ordinance
Public Education / Municipal Review Draft
Version 7.2
General standard.
Mandatory true closed-loop / non-evaporative cooling.
Prohibited cooling technologies.
No routine cooling-water withdrawal regardless of source.
Limited non-routine water uses.
No exemption for evaporative primary cooling.
Cooling Water Balance and Zero Routine Cooling-Water Demonstration.
Anti-evasion; substitute water-consuming thermal management.
I. Metering and reporting.
Metering and reporting.
River basin commissions.
Water emergency curtailment.
Wastewater.
No cooling blowdown or unauthorized discharge.
Process chemicals and closed-loop coolant management.
Coolant replacement, flushing, and disposal.
Annual coolant and chemical certification.
Power-generation water use.