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Dallas-based WATTER announced<\/a> Tuesday that it has begun the commercial rollout of a distributed artificial intelligence infrastructure system at Hyatt Regency Dallas, placing computing equipment inside the hotel and capturing server waste heat to help warm the property\u2019s water.<\/p>\n The company says the Dallas installation is the first of three planned sites.<\/p>\n WATTER also says it has a pipeline of more than 200 hotel properties across two ownership groups, although it did not identify those properties or provide a rollout schedule.<\/p>\n Hunt-Reunion Inc., a subsidiary of Hunt Realty Investments, owns<\/a> the 1,120-room Hyatt Regency Dallas<\/a> and neighboring Reunion Tower. Hyatt manages the hotel.<\/p>\n How The System Works<\/p>\n WATTER says its model places AI computing systems in existing buildings that have available electrical capacity and steady demand for hot water. At the Hyatt, the company says the system captures<\/a> heat produced by computing equipment and uses it to preheat water before it reaches the building\u2019s boiler.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen most people look at a hotel, they see a hospitality asset. We see infrastructure hiding in plain sight,\u201d WATTER Co-Founder and CEO James Hancock said in the company\u2019s October 13 Business Wire release.<\/p>\n Hunter Hunt, president, CEO and chairman of Hunt Energy Company and Hunt Oil Company, said in the release that the Reunion installation lowers natural gas consumption and cost while reducing some of the infrastructure demands associated with a traditional data center.<\/p>\n Key Details Remain Undisclosed<\/p>\n The announcement does not disclose the Hyatt deployment\u2019s computing capacity, electricity draw, installation cost, measured natural gas savings, property-owner revenue or the customers purchasing its AI compute. Those omissions prevent an independent comparison of the project\u2019s economics and energy use with a conventional data center.<\/p>\n WATTER raised<\/a> a $5 million seed round in March 2025 led by Hunt Innovative Technologies and 17Shoals Inc. as the company spun out of Hunt Innovative Technologies, a Hunt Energy subsidiary.<\/p>\n A federal small-business research database lists<\/a> a $1,249,802 Phase II U.S. Air Force award to WATTER for work on distributed computing that repurposes server heat. The award period runs from August 27, 2025, through March 29, 2027.<\/p>\n Texas Data Center Debate Provides Context<\/p>\n