Colocation Data Centers

Maximize Capacity. Protect Uptime. Deliver Sustainable Growth.

Colocation providers operate in a highly competitive environment where reliability, efficiency and sustainability directly impact customer retention and revenue growth. Ecolab helps colocation operators optimize cooling system performance, reduce water and energy consumption, and increase operational resilience through intelligent water management solutions. 

From new facility development to ongoing operations, we help data center providers improve uptime, maximize infrastructure performance and meet the evolving expectations of enterprise and hyperscale tenants.

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Meeting the Challenges of Modern Colocation Operations

As customer demand grows, colocation providers must balance operational efficiency, sustainability and reliability while supporting increasing rack densities and expanding capacity.

Ecolab helps address critical challenges including:

  • Rising water and energy costs
  • Increasing cooling demands from high-density workloads
  • Sustainability commitments from tenants and investors
  • Infrastructure scalability and growth
  • Uptime and service-level agreement (SLA) requirements
  • Asset reliability and operational risk

Ecolab helps hyperscale operators optimize water and cooling system performance across global portfolios, enabling resilient growth while reducing environmental impact.

Meeting the Challenges of Modern Colocation Operations

As customer demand grows, colocation providers must balance operational efficiency, sustainability and reliability while supporting increasing rack densities and expanding capacity.

Ecolab helps address critical challenges including:

  • Rising water and energy costs
  • Increasing cooling demands from high-density workloads
  • Sustainability commitments from tenants and investors
  • Infrastructure scalability and growth
  • Uptime and service-level agreement (SLA) requirements
  • Asset reliability and operational risk

Protecting Uptime and Customer SLAs

Every outage impacts customer trust, retention and revenue.

Ecolab helps optimize cooling system reliability through proactive monitoring, water treatment and operational expertise designed to support uninterrupted performance. 

Our solutions help operators:

  • Reduce cooling-related operational risks
  • Improve system reliability
  • Maximize cooling asset performance
  • Support continuous customer operations

Increasing Operational Efficiency Across Facilities

Utility expenses represent a significant portion of data center operating costs.

Ecolab helps colocation providers identify opportunities to improve cooling efficiency and optimize water use without compromising reliability. 

Benefits include:

  • Lower water consumption
  • Improved cooling performance
  • Reduced maintenance requirements
  • Better utilization of cooling infrastructure
  • Lower total operating costs

Enabling Sustainable Growth

Sustainability is increasingly becoming a key selection criterion for tenants.

Ecolab helps operators improve environmental performance while supporting growth objectives. Our programs help:

  • Reduce facility water use
  • Improve Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE)
  • Support sustainability reporting initiatives
  • Strengthen environmental stewardship programs
  • Meet customer sustainability expectations 

By turning resource efficiency into a business advantage, operators can strengthen their competitive position and attract sustainability-focused customers.

Supporting High-Density and Next-Generation Workloads

The rapid growth of AI, cloud computing and high-performance applications is increasing cooling demands across colocation environments.

Ecolab helps operators prepare for the future by:

  • Optimizing cooling infrastructure performance
  • Supporting higher rack densities
  • Improving water and thermal management strategies
  • Increasing visibility into facility performance
  • Helping ensure reliable capacity expansion

Gaining Real-Time Visibility and Control

Digital monitoring and analytics provide operators with actionable insights into water use, cooling system performance and operational risk.

With Ecolab's real-time visibility systems, colocation teams can:

  • Identify inefficiencies sooner
  • Detect performance issues before they impact operations
  • Support proactive decision-making
  • Improve resource management across facilities

Facts and Figures Impacting Data Center Water

Cooling is critical to data centers, and water is often critical to cooling. Through smart water management and cooling system optimization, we help data centers operate efficiently, conserve vital resources and hit their uptime targets. Learn more about how this essential industry is growing to support global connectivity of all kinds:

5 Billion

The volume of internet searches generated around the world each day.

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29.3 Billion

The number of connected devices expected online by 2030, up from 18.4 billion in 2018.

50X

The amount by which the world’s data is expected to grow in the next decade.

2.9 Gigawatts

The amount of new data center construction underway globally, up from 1.6 gigawatts in 2020.

Real-World Success Stories

We help data centers improve sustainability and maximize uptime and water savings at every stage of the facility life cycle. Learn more about our data center solutions, strategies and programs:

Optimizing Safe Water at SAP Data Centers

SAP minimizes risks and avoids unexpected costs at its data centers worldwide.

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Reducing Potable Water Use with Microsoft

Microsoft data center reduces potable water use by 58.3 million gallons per year.

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Helping a Data Center Achieve Its Water Reduction Goal

Data center reduces annual water use by 2.9 million gallons.

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Cooling Water Management

Optimize critical data center cooling assets to maximize operational availability and minimize carbon footprint.

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Life Cycle Management

Solve end-to-end data center water management challenges from site selection and design through post-treatment 

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Constantly Innovating to Help You Meet Your Enterprise-Wide Sustainability Goals

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Water Track IQ

Real-Time Water Flow Monitoring and Management

Uncover water savings opportunities via real-time visibility and data-driven insights.

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The Ecolab Water Navigator IQ

Helping businesses accelerate resilience, drive strong performance and unlock impact.

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Yellow Metal Corrosion Inhibitor

Yellow Metal Corrosion Inhibitor

Learn more about a stable, high performance corrosion inhibition for your widest operating window yet.

Yellow Metal Corrosion Inhibitor

Yellow Metal Corrosion Inhibitor

Learn more about a stable, high performance corrosion inhibition for your widest operating window yet.

Commercial White Rust Inhibitor Programs

Commercial White Rust Inhibitor Programs

Nalco's patented, white rust inhibitor is a synergistic blend of passivation agents for galvanized surfaces that are exp...

Commercial White Rust Inhibitor Programs

Commercial White Rust Inhibitor Programs

Nalco's patented, white rust inhibitor is a synergistic blend of passivation agents for galvanized surfaces that are exp...

WaterShed Tailings Dewatering Technology

WaterShed Tailings Dewatering Technology

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WaterShed Tailings Dewatering Technology

WaterShed Tailings Dewatering Technology

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Ecolab Water Safety IQ™ for Intelligent Water Risk Management

Ecolab Water Safety IQ™ for Intelligent Water Risk Management

Ecolab Water Safety IQ™ delivers unparalleled insight into your water risk.

Ecolab Water Safety IQ™ for Intelligent Water Risk Management

Ecolab Water Safety IQ™ for Intelligent Water Risk Management

Ecolab Water Safety IQ™ delivers unparalleled insight into your water risk.

Water Quality IQ™

Water Quality IQ™

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Ecolab Commercial Pest Elimination for Buildings

Ecolab Commercial Pest Elimination for Buildings

Commercial Pest Control Services | Ecolab delivers Pest Elimination - not just pest control

Ecolab Commercial Pest Elimination for Buildings

Ecolab Commercial Pest Elimination for Buildings

Commercial Pest Control Services | Ecolab delivers Pest Elimination - not just pest control

Water Reuse and Recycling

Water Reuse and Recycling

Explore Nalco Water's industrial water reuse and recycling solutions to conserve water, treat combined wastewater stream...

Ecolab Pest Intelligence

Ecolab Pest Intelligence

With 24/7 pest detection technology and advanced analytics, we optimise pest-free outcomes for your business. Learn more...

Water Reuse and Recycling

Water Reuse and Recycling

Explore Nalco Water's industrial water reuse and recycling solutions to conserve water, treat combined wastewater stream...

Ecolab Pest Intelligence

Ecolab Pest Intelligence

With 24/7 pest detection technology and advanced analytics, we optimise pest-free outcomes for your business. Learn more...

Water Safety Programs

Water Safety Programs

The very water and mechanical systems that cools your air, supplies your faucets, fills your pools, or feeds your founta...

Water Safety Programs

Water Safety Programs

The very water and mechanical systems that cools your air, supplies your faucets, fills your pools, or feeds your founta...

Industrial Water Pretreatment Systems

Industrial Water Pretreatment Systems

Our team designs, builds and services ion exchange, water filtration, DI and RO systems, and provides maintenance and ex...

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