Corporate Sustainability

Scaling demand for cloud-based data and service offerings, globally, is being matched by an increase in the number and size of data centers. This broader move away from closet-sized server rooms to million-square-foot facilities, better known as hyperscale data centers, presents widespread implications for water supplies, water management solutions, and local authorities. Bluefield projects that the water use of the global data center industry will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 5.6% through the end of the decade, making it one of the fastest-growing industrial water verticals.. >>Learn More

The growing prevalence of online purchasing and door-to-door deliveries (e.g., consumer packages, takeout food), even in the absence of COVID-19, is accelerating on the heels of the “Amazon Effect”– disruption created by online, digital procurement in lieu of traditional brick and mortar businesses. Against this backdrop and the emerging impacts of corporate sustainability initiatives of consumer products companies, water management across the respective pulp & paper and petrochemical (e.g. plastic) supply chains is being impacted in parallel. >>Learn More

Consumer product companies (e.g., Beauty & Personal Care, Food and Beverage) are setting more ambitious water efficiency targets for 2030. These days “going green” [or “going blue”] is considered good for the bottom line, and water plays well into sustainability goals and brand. Many companies are already allocating funds towards achieving these targets, like PepsiCo with Green Bonds and Tesla’s water reuse strategies at its gigafactories. >>Learn More