Water supply & consumptive use
How much water the project consumes, against the receiving water's own cited low flows.
- a disclosed cooling method and a metered or contracted water quantity; neither is on the record here.
A real impact study states how much water Project Zodiac consumes at buildout. It sets that figure against the the receiving water's own cited design low flows, which are the drought floors a permit writer screens every discharge against. This chapter reports as much of that comparison as the record supports. It names what it cannot compute.
Cooling methodnot disclosed [open] a facility is on the record here; no record says how it rejects heat
No water-balance scenario exists for this site — the panels below name the records that would let this chapter compute one. The hydrology annex holds whatever partial record exists.
This is the network’s sharpest version of the chapter’s gap: the facility is not proposed but operating. Project Zodiac holds an IDEM Title V air permit (003-47378-00530, issued 2024-09-06) whose 34 emergency generators ground the IT-load bracket — the air side of the record is instrument-grade. The water side is empty: no cooling method disclosed, no water-balance scenario computable, no discharge characterization filed. A campus can reach its operating permit with its entire water account off the record — that asymmetry is this chapter’s finding.
The permit that grounds the load names the operator only as “a stationary data center.” The records that would open this chapter are the same ordinary ones every gap panel names: a water-service contract, a wastewater permit, or the cooling-plant spec.
The record behind this chapter
What this chapter stands on: the records it reads, the inputs its modeled figures rest
on, and the reference data behind its baselines — the same pages the record screens
serve, not a second copy. A figure the record does not support stays [open] and links nothing.
- Permits1 record