An AI-ready edge data center that bills itself as Corpus Christi’s first opened on Tancahua Street May 12.
Duos Edge AI, the edge data center development part of Florida-based Duos Technologies Group, launched the facility as one of 12 in Texas. The data center is designed to support regional carriers, enterprises, schools and health care providers to run their online apps and data tools without any lag.
Bill Radford, vice president of technology for Duos Edge AI, spoke to a small crowd at the site. The first thing he said was the data center uses “zero water.”
“Everything runs off technology,” Radford said. “We know there’s a water problem in Corpus Christi. This center is designed to be an unmanned facility, with us able to see everything from it remotely with our security system. From a power perspective, we have one single transformer that feeds the whole facility.”
Radford said the power usage is equivalent to the power used at a McDonald’s.
The company built a data center in Corpus Christi due to its interest in a smaller market with the potential for growth. However, Radford said expansion is not planned and is only possible if the market requests it.
The opening of the facility came about a week after the Corpus Christi Regional Economic Development Corp. announced that Hut 8 had picked Nueces County “as the preferred location for Beacon Point, a $9.8B multi-phase, multi-tenant landmark AI data center project.”
The water use of that project is estimated to total about “10,000 gallons per day, comparable to the daily water use of a small commercial facility such as a restaurant,” the release stated.
John Oliva covers entertainment and community news in South Texas. Have a story idea? Contact him at john.oliva@caller.com.
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