Waterbury, CT
TierPoint – Waterbury
TierPoint · Operating · 108 Bank Street, 5th Floor
An existing, small colocation facility occupying a single floor of an office building in downtown Waterbury — a fundamentally different category from the large new-build campuses driving Connecticut's current data center boom. Included for completeness, but it does not have a comparable water-use footprint or public water-impact record, since it draws on the host building's shared utilities rather than dedicated on-site cooling infrastructure.
Estimated water use
Estimate0–0 gal/day
1 MW × 0–0 gal/day/MW (air_cooled)
1 MW capacity: cloudandcolocation.comair_cooled cooling: datacentermap.com
Ratio source: Uptime Institute Journal; Data Center Knowledge WUE guide
Pumped-refrigerant / DX air-cooled systems use no process water for cooling per industry consensus.
Derived from a published industry ratio; actual use varies with operating conditions, load, and weather.
Lifecycle timeline
ObservedConfirmed events only, each with its source.
~December 2014
Ownership change
TierPoint acquired Xand, a colocation/cloud/disaster-recovery provider with six data centers across NY, PA, CT, and MA, doubling TierPoint's footprint to 13 data centers. The Waterbury, CT facility at 108 Bank Street was one of the acquired Xand sites. Terms were not disclosed; the deal was funded partly by new investor Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.
Source
Observed hydrologic data
ObservedFrom nearby USGS and NOAA monitoring stations, refreshed monthly. Dashed lines mark lifecycle milestones.
No observed data yet for this facility's monitoring stations.
Regulatory records
ObservedWater permits and environmental compliance records from CT DEEP Water Diversion Program and EPA ECHO.
No permit or compliance record from these sources currently matches this facility.
Other water permits in Waterbury: local context only
10 other diversion permits on file in Waterbury, held by other water users nearby (public water systems, industry, golf courses). The largest:
- Waterbury Country Club, Inc.1.58 MGD max
- City of Waterbury, Town of Wolcott0.5 MGD max
- BRISTOL, INC.0.32 MGD max
- City of Waterbury0.23 MGD max
- BRISTOL, INC.0.22 MGD max
Drawdown story
AssessmentIs the water table's behavior near this facility consistent with its estimated draw — and how strong is the evidence? A fixed rubric, recomputed monthly; every number below is stored with the inputs that produced it. Method: attribution-v1.
1 · Pathway
The operator has not disclosed where this facility's water comes from. Until a source is published, the assessment is capped: an unclassified pathway can never raise the score.
2 · Detectability
Even at the high end of the estimate, the draw would be invisible (under 0.2 ft) at the nearest monitored well 2.0 mi away — "not detectable" is the expected outcome.
3 · Signal
Monthly median depth to water: wells within 2 mi of the facility (violet) vs. matched background wells 5–15 mi away (gray). Shading marks the assessment's baseline and post-anchor windows.
Dashed: each near well's own trend, deseasonalized and projected forward from its last reading — a projection of measured history, not a prediction, and never part of the evidence score below. Method: forecast mode.
The monitoring record around this facility is too sparse to assess.
Attribution evidence score: withheld · as of 2026-07-22 · attribution-v1