Water, Unlocked.
New Water from the Sky. Power from the Mountains. Cooling from the Future.
Aether Hydro is developing technology to turn atmospheric water vapor into new freshwater supply while generating renewable energy and supporting data center cooling, built on climate science and advanced engineering.
- Offshore
generation - Atmospheric
routing - High-alpine
basin - Descent /
campus
The collision
Demand is outrunning the grid and the watershed.
The Western U.S. faces unprecedented water scarcity. Hyperscale AI compute is straining existing infrastructure. Aether Hydro is designed to address both, combining atmospheric water vaporization with alpine hydroelectric generation.
Every new campus draws on the same strained grids and shrinking basins as the communities around it. Expansion has become a permitting problem before it is an engineering one.
- Queue
- Grid interconnection runs three to seven years
- Water
- Municipal restriction and water-rights litigation stall siting
- Heat
- High-density compute has outrun evaporative cooling
The system
A closed loop. Off the grid. Outside the watershed fight.
We generate offshore, route the vapor inland, and hold it in high-alpine basins. Released down the mountain it generates baseload power, passes through our behind-the-meter thermal cooling system, and then returns to the existing watershed - augmenting the rain and snowfall already falling there rather than drawing against them.
- Sea level Offshore generation
- Atmospheric Routed inland as vapour
- High-alpine basin Held off-stream at altitude
- Descent Released as baseload power
- Campus → watershed Cooled, then returned downstream
- Power
- Generated on release from water stored at altitude
- Thermal
- Closed-loop liquid cooling, zero evaporative loss
- Water
- Net-positive to the basin, returned downstream
- Delivery
- Behind the meter, modular pods to campus scale
- Offtake
- Water, cooling and power contracted under long-term agreement
Design targets for the full network:
- 31 to 39 AF/year of new water supply (projected)
- 140 to 203 MWh/year of renewable energy (projected)
- Direct data center cooling integration with a targeted 35 to 45% cooling energy reduction
- Independently auditable ESG reporting for corporate climate commitments (planned)
Scale
One boat is the unit. The fleet is the answer.
A single Scout is built to deliver 110 to 150 acre-feet a year. Everything after that is a question of how many and where, and because the water lands at altitude the power and the cooling scale with it rather than alongside it.
One Scout
110–150acre-feet per year, per vessel
One hull, running on its own solar, delivering into one basin.
A fleet
Add hullscapacity scales by count
No new dam, no new civil works and no new water right between one vessel and twenty.
Sited to the need
Basin by basinplaced against the deficit
Where a fleet goes follows the documented shortfall and the prevailing airflow, so delivery is matched to the basin that is short.
And the power with it
Water is the fuelgeneration follows delivery
Every acre-foot landed at altitude is generation on release and cooling at the campus. Scale the water and the energy scales with it.
The ask
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