With over 8,000 facilities worldwide and exponential growth, the data center industry is strategic and faces an urgent challenge: reducing its environmental impact while meeting the growing energy demand of its operations. Crystal Lagoons addresses this need with pioneering technology revolutionizing data center cooling in the United States, offering a high-impact and globally scalable sustainable solution.
Crystal Lagoons innovation enables sustainable cooling for data centers while climate-controlling monumental crystalline lagoons. In addition to featuring traditional beach areas, these lagoons will include warm water zones maintaining temperatures between 37 and 38 degrees Celsius, ensuring their use year-round, even on the coldest nights.
The first project where Crystal Lagoons will implement this system is the Angel Lagoon PAL® development in Texas, in association with Land Tejas, a renowned U.S. real estate developer. Located in Dayton, just 40 minutes from Houston, the site will feature a 6 MW data center cooled by the already-inaugurated 4,2-acre lagoon. Deep Green Energy, a subsidiary of the UK-based Octopus Energy, one of the world’s leading energy companies, will build and operate the data center.
Crystal Lagoons® technology directly impacts the reduction of energy consumption in data centers, as the lagoons act as heat dissipators, creating a closed-loop cooling system that reduces energy use by 40% to 50% compared to traditional air-cooled chiller systems. This sustainable solution also provides additional environmental benefits, such as reducing carbon footprints, accessing carbon credits, utilizing wasted energy, and streamlining project regulatory approval processes.
Cristóbal Baixas, Corporate Development Director of Crystal Lagoons, emphasized: “This is just the first project with Land Tejas, as Crystal Lagoons has signed an agreement to develop three additional PAL® complexes in Texas, named Magnolia, Sierra Vista, and Fry Road. They will also include data centers and use our sustainable cooling technology.”
This advancement highlights Crystal Lagoons’ commitment to sustainable innovation, expanding the positive impact the company has already achieved in various global industries, such as real estate and cities, through its Public Access Lagoons®, also known as PAL® developments. “Crystal Lagoons provides a comprehensive and sustainable solution for a strategic industry while simultaneously driving the expansion of temperate crystalline lagoons, which will become a growth engine for these projects in all climates,” concluded Baixas.
