What IT Parks in India Get Wrong About Water – And Why It Costs Them Uptime!
There’s a line that gets repeated in every infrastructure planning meeting for IT parks in India: “Water is a utility. It’ll be handled.” And then it isn’t. Not because nobody cared. But because water — unlike power, connectivity, or fire safety — rarely has a dedicated champion in the room. It gets delegated, deferred, and designed around instead of designed for. And the consequences show up later, quietly, in the form of chiller inefficiency, pressure complaints, regulatory notices, and equipment that ages faster than it should. Here’s what’s actually going wrong. Cooling Is Treated As A Power Problem, Not A Water Problem The chiller is the heart of an IT park’s cooling infrastructure. And chillers are extraordinarily sensitive to water quality. Hard water — high in calcium and magnesium — deposits scale on heat exchange surfaces. Every millimetre of scale forces the chiller to work harder to achieve the same output. Efficiency drops. Energy bills rise. And eventually, the equi...