US water treatment firm Gradiant has signed a deal with an unnamed hyperscaler to deliver its HyperSolved water and wastewater system for its data center currently under development in West Texas. HyperSolved is Gradiant's end-to-end water treatment platform for hyperscale AI data centers. According to the company, the platform manages the full cooling water lifecycle for hyperscale AI data centers, from sourcing to discharge, under a single system. It draws on non-freshwater sources including municipal effluent and groundwater, then uses high-recovery concentration technology to minimize liquid discharge and cut disposal costs. An AI-driven monitoring layer, SmartOps, tracks and optimizes water systems in real time to protect cooling performance and reliability. “Water-scarce regions are where the next wave of hyperscale growth is happening, and most operators don’t have a way to get there,” said Prakash Govindan, CEO of Gradiant. “We’re giving them one. This project shows hyperscalers can build in these markets without water becoming the reason they can’t.” “This project puts Gradiant’s data center track record to work in one of the tightest schedules and toughest water constraints we’ve seen, backed by the presence we’ve already built in Texas,” added Nish Vora, managing director, Americas at Gradiant. “We’re delivering the site’s full water and wastewater system engineered for zero discharge to surface water, on a construction schedule that leaves no room for delay.” Gradiant expects data centers to account for around 25 percent of its global business by 2027. HyperSolved is available across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. In April , the firm reported that it had been awarded a contract to design and deliver a water treatment facility for a planned hyperscale data center in Didcot, South Oxfordshire, UK, located on the site of a former coal power station. In May , the company said it had deployed the system across several large-scale hyperscale data centers. Also in May, the company closed its Series E funding round , valuing it at $2 billion. DCD toured Gradiant’s Houston, Texas, R&D facility earlier this year. Subscribe to our magazine to read more about the visit as well as the broader issue of water use within the data center sector.