Making Sense of Data Centers: Geosyntec Consultants
Making Sense of Data Centers: Geosyntec Consultants
Geosyntec helps clients build reliable and resilient data centers that comply with permitting requirements, consider surrounding communities, and optimize water use and reuse.
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Data Centers

Clients who manage or rely on mission-critical infrastructure like data centers and power supply networks must address quickly advancing technologies, shifting regulations, and evolving investment priorities.

At Geosyntec, we take innovative approaches that address these fast-paced demands and provide efficient, robust, and resilient systems.

Green data center campus, sustainable energy water environmental solutions.
Data center server racks provide energy for artificial intelligence.
Industrial water management for data centers, rippling green-blue water.
Data center air permitting, compliance, industrial cooling towers, fans.

Data Center Specifics

Demand for data center land, storage, and computing capacity is dramatically expanding to support digitization, edge computing, and artificial intelligence. Because these facilities form the backbone of the digital economy, their development calls for efficient and streamlined project-delivery planning and execution. At the same time, facility owners must minimize maintenance profiles to maximize efficiency and create centers that are reliable, profitable, and sustainable.

Geosyntec supports clients throughout each project’s life cycle, from siting studies and due diligence through permitting, compliance, and operations. We develop paths to decarbonization and water stewardship, providing innovative solutions to help clients develop, expand, and maintain state-of-the-art data centers.

Geosyntec’ multidisciplinary experts deliver innovative and sustainable solutions for digital infrastructure projects, including the following:

  • Due Diligence and Site Selection
  • Environmental and Compliance
  • Water Supply and Water Rights
  • Stormwater and Industrial Water
  • Geotechnical and Instrumentation
  • Energy Solutions
  • Stakeholder Engagement

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Digital Infrastructure Services

  • Water & Energy

    The energy transition is realigning energy’s interdependence with water. Water has always been essential to energy production, with the energy sector accounting for a tenth of global freshwater withdrawals.

  • Water Supply and Water Security

    Food and beverage production facilities rely heavily on high-quality water for daily operation; therefore, source water protection is key to maintaining uninterrupted operation, long-term sustainability, and production efficiency while protecting corporate branding and public image.

  • Water Conservation, Reuse, and Minimization

    The growing scarcity of high-quality water has led the food and beverage sector to make strong commitments to water conservation programs for their facilities. These commitments are increasingly driving changes to food production processes as their impact is incorporated into day to day facility operations.

  • Infrastructure Planning, Engineering, and Design

    Across industries and project types, delivery is increasingly shaped by regulatory complexity, environmental constraints, stakeholder expectations, and the need to accelerate schedules while managing costs.

  • Brownfield Redevelopment Planning & Design

    Working with public- and private-sector clients, Geosyntec provides award-winning redevelopment strategies for brownfield sites worldwide.

  • Due Diligence

    The role of environmental due diligence during merger, divestiture, and acquisition (MD&A) activities has evolved significantly since the early years of conducting straightforward Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs) for the purpose of identifying potential environmental concerns.

  • Environmental Permitting and Compliance

    Geosyntec provides a diverse portfolio of services to our public and private clients to improve their environmental and financial performance, manage risk, and reduce environmental liabilities consistent with their financial and stewardship goals.

  • Environmental, Social, and Governance

    Geosyntec helps our clients identify ways to embed ESG and sustainability goals into their business operations so they can create new sources of value in the way they deliver their core products and services.

  • Services for Electric Power Utilities

    The electric power industry faces numerous challenges in the coming decade. These include shifts in fuels, increasing pressures from the public and environmental advocacy groups, regulatory changes for air, water, and coal-burning byproducts. Along with such challenges, high-profile events like the tsunami that struck Fukushima, Japan, are reshaping plans and decisions for producing and delivering electricity.

Data Center Projects

Lead Practitioners

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Geosyntec supports our practitioners as they explore new ideas, find new uses for established technologies, and develop more efficient ways of serving our clients. We work across disciplines, often partnering with universities, researchers, and clients, to develop and commercialize leading-edge solutions.

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