Eleveight AI says data center in Armenia uses no water for cooling

Eleveight AI has said that its artificial intelligence factory in Armenia’s Gagarin uses no water for cooling and will continue to do so as the facility expands.

Below is the full article published by the company.

When it comes to large-scale artificial intelligence infrastructure, public concerns often center on one key question: how much water is consumed to cool the chips that power our digital lives? This is a justified concern, given historically recorded figures and global trends.

In Armenia, Eleveight AI’s first AI Factory, located in Gagarin, is cooled with zero water consumption. There is no water in the chips, no water in cooling towers, and no water is used from Lake Sevan, any Armenian river, or the municipal drinking water network. The company deliberately built it this way. This is not a feature added later, but a fundamental engineering principle around which the entire factory was designed from day one.

The Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE) of Eleveight AI’s AI Factory is effectively 0 liters/kWh. Its Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is 1.1, placing the factory among the world’s most efficient AI data centers. Throughout all of the company’s current and future development phases, water will never be part of the cooling system. This is a clear and unwavering commitment incorporated into every engineering and expansion decision made by the company.

The global discussion around data centers and water consumption

Globally, water consumption by data centers is a legitimate and growing public concern.

Around 75-90% of the world’s large data centers use water-based cooling as their primary cooling method ([Florida Water and Pollution Control Operators Association, 2025]). About 57% of the water directly used by data centers comes from drinking water sources ([Nature / npj Clean Water]). This is the current global reality of cooling for much of the world’s digital infrastructure.

Thanks to modern solutions, Eleveight AI has chosen a fundamentally different approach.

What does “water” actually mean in cooling? A distinction worth knowing

An important distinction is often overlooked in public discussions: not all “liquids” in a data center are water, and not all “water” is of the same origin and nature.

Some systems use drinking water, which eventually evaporates into the atmosphere. Others use an artificial, specially formulated synthetic engineering fluid that never comes into contact with drinking water, does not evaporate, and does not enter natural water bodies. These are entirely different categories with different environmental impacts, and confusing them is precisely the main reason for public concern.

Before asking whether a data center “uses water,” it is necessary to determine what type of liquid is being referred to. Here is how they can be distinguished:

A fixed principle: water will never be part of Eleveight AI’s cooling system

As Eleveight AI expands, the company remains committed to one fundamental principle: water will never become part of the cooling system.

When higher-density AI computing workloads require liquid cooling at the chip level, the factory will use a fully closed-loop cooling system with a dielectric coolant. It is a sealed, non-water-based synthetic fluid that is filled once and circulated for years without evaporation or loss.

This principle remains unchanged in every strategic decision concerning Eleveight AI’s development and expansion, because future AI infrastructure must be created in harmony with nature, without any compromise.