Water From Air

What Water From Air does

Water From Air is a Pasadena, California-based technology company that builds atmospheric water generation systems designed to convert industrial waste heat into pure distilled water. Its core product is a patent-pending sorbent-based water harvesting platform that captures moisture from ambient air through adsorption and releases it at low temperatures and ambient pressure, leveraging waste heat sources such as GPU exhaust, cooling distribution units, chillers, and onsite power generation. The system is factory-built in a modular, retrofit-ready form factor using parts and practices common to the HVAC and modular data center industries, and is optimized for dry and arid environments using high-performance computing and digital twin technology.

The company's primary commercial focus is data center and AI infrastructure operators, where its technology enables zero water usage effectiveness (WUE) adiabatic cooling and is claimed to reduce cooling energy consumption by up to 50% relative to mechanical cooling. Secondary applications target industries that generate low- and medium-grade waste heat while consuming large amounts of local water, including cosmetics, cold storage, food and beverage, chemicals, textiles, district energy, off-grid power, and building HVAC. The business model is enterprise hardware sales with potential associated installation, maintenance, and monitoring services; pricing is not publicly disclosed.

The company was founded in 2022 and operates with a small team (1–10 employees, with approximately 10–15 named individuals spanning executive leadership, engineering, sourcing, and business development). Strategic backers and partners include Idealab/IdealabX, Prime Movers Lab, the NVIDIA Inception program, and Kortschak Investments L.P. In July 2025, Water From Air was selected for the iMasons Innovation Incubator Program to accelerate deployment to data center operators. The company is private, pre-revenue, and has not disclosed a formal institutional venture funding round.

Name

Water From Air

Website

https://waterfromair.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Water From Air builds modular atmospheric water generation systems that convert industrial waste heat into pure distilled water, primarily serving data center and AI infrastructure operators in arid environments through adiabatic cooling applications.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Atmospheric Water Generation / Data Center Cooling Technology

NAICS

Ventilation, Heating, Air-Conditioning, and Commercial Refrigeration Equipment Manufacturing (33341), Power Boiler and Heat Exchanger Manufacturing (33241), Steam and Air-Conditioning Supply (221330)

SIC

Air-Cond & Warm Air Heatg Equip & Comm & Indl Refrig Equip (3585), Water Supply (4941), Cogeneration Services & Small Power Producers (4991)

akta.pro primary industry

Industrial Water Reuse Utilities (ZLD/MLD & Process Water Recycling) (EUANAGAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Heat Transfer Equipment (Heat Exchangers, Boilers, Condensers) (IMAHAEAC), Adsorption & Taste/Odor Control (GAC/PAC, Air Stripping) (EUANABAF), Cooling Tower & Evaporative Condenser Water Treatment (BPABAJAC), Industrial Drying & Evaporation Equipment (Dryers, Evaporators, Crystallizers) (IMAHAEAD)

Keywords

• Atmospheric water generation
• Data center cooling
• Adiabatic cooling systems
• Waste heat recovery
• Water-from-air technology

Headquarters

HQ city

Pasadena

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Atmospheric Water Generation Systems: Sale of modular water-from-air systems designed for data center adiabatic cooling. Factory-built units utilizing HVAC industry parts and practices. Revenue derived from hardware sales and potentially associated installation, maintenance, and monitoring services.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Water From Air manufactures and sells atmospheric water generation systems that capture water from air using patent-pending sorbent materials regenerated at low temperatures and ambient pressure. The systems convert industrial waste heat (such as GPU and mechanical cooling waste heat) into pure distilled water to enable zero-water-usage-effectiveness adiabatic cooling for data centers, particularly in arid environments. The offering is a modular, retrofit-ready, factory-built hardware platform leveraging HVAC and modular data center industry components.

Product overview

Water From Air offers a single unified atmospheric water generation platform designed for data center cooling. The core technology uses proprietary sorbent materials to harvest water from ambient air through an adsorb-desorb cycle, leveraging waste heat from GPUs and mechanical cooling systems. The system produces pure distilled water while simultaneously enabling adiabatic cooling, which reduces cooling energy usage by 50% and shifts data centers to lower PUE methods. The product is modular and retrofit-ready, built using standard parts and practices from the HVAC and modular data center industry.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Atmospheric Water Generation System A patent-pending factory-built, modular, retrofit-ready atmospheric water generation system that captures water from air using sorbent materials regenerated at low temperatures and ambient pressure. It converts industrial waste heat (from GPUs, mechanical cooling, and on-site power generation) into pure distilled water to enable zero-water-usage-effectiveness adiabatic cooling for data centers, particularly in arid environments. The system is built using parts and practices common to the HVAC and modular data center industry.

Quantifiable outcome

• 50% reduction in cooling energy usage through adiabatic cooling vs mechanical cooling
• +2 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• iMasons (Infrastructure Masons)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 July 2025iMasons selected Water From Air for its innovation incubator program to support deployment of climate technology that converts waste heat from data centers into water. Collaboration effective July 2025, aims to accelerate technology use in arid environments, enhancing sustainability and operational efficiency for digital infrastructure.
• NVIDIA InceptionminorGTM or Marketing PartnerMember of NVIDIA Inception program, which supports startups reshaping industries through technological breakthroughs. Logo displayed on team page indicating membership.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• GENAQ: Emerging AWG competitor producing compact atmospheric water generators for residential, commercial, and humanitarian use. Comparable as a Sorvent-based AWG peer with similar industrial-cooling adjacency potential, though at smaller production scale than Source or Watergen.
• Source Global: Direct competitor producing atmospheric water generation systems (Hydropanels) for distributed drinking water applications. Comparable as an AWG technology company with proprietary sorbent/condensation mechanisms, though Source's primary use case is residential/commercial drinking water rather than industrial data center cooling.
• Watergen: Direct competitor in atmospheric water generation with GEN-350 and smaller units deployed globally. Comparable AWG technology stack targeting water-scarce regions, with overlapping customer interest in industrial and humanitarian applications; serves as a benchmark for AWG unit economics and field validation.
• Eole Water: Direct peer producing AWG systems using wind turbine-driven condensation. Operates in the same atmospheric water generation category with a focus on remote and water-stressed deployments; useful comparable for production cost benchmarking and durability in harsh environments.

Broad incumbents

• Munters: Global manufacturer of evaporative cooling, adiabatic cooling, and air treatment systems for data centers and industrial facilities. Directly comparable adiabatic-cooling product overlap; Munters' installed base and global service network represent the competitive benchmark for WFA's go-to-market.
• Vertiv: Large incumbent in data center thermal management (cooling, adiabatic systems, chillers, immersion). Most directly comparable on the cooling-application side of WFA's offering; represents both the incumbent WFA must displace in cooling and a potential strategic acquirer or channel partner for adiabatic modules.
• EVAPCO: Long-established manufacturer of cooling towers, adiabatic coolers, and heat exchange equipment for data center and industrial markets. Comparable on the adiabatic-cooling application layer; relevant reference for unit pricing, install base, and water-treatment requirements that WFA's pure-water output addresses.
• Baltimore Aircoil Company: Global leader in heat transfer and evaporative cooling equipment, including adiabatic and hybrid fluid coolers for data centers. Comparable on cooling-tower water treatment and adiabatic applications; useful comparable for water-quality value proposition economics.
• Stulz: Specialized manufacturer of precision cooling and adiabatic systems for data centers. Comparable as a focused data center cooling competitor; represents the closest incumbent product overlap on the adiabatic cooling side of WFA's offering.

Emerging players

• Trunap: Emerging AWG technology developer pursuing distributed atmospheric water generation with industrial-scale ambitions. Comparable as a smaller, less-funded AWG peer; useful for tracking technology approaches and pricing in the broader AWG competitive set.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles14 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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