{"id":467298,"date":"2026-10-16T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/467298\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T00:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T00:00:22","slug":"watter-launches-ai-waste-heat-system-at-hyatt-regency-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/467298\/","title":{"rendered":"Watter Launches AI Waste-Heat System at Hyatt Regency Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Welcome<\/p>\n

The Hyatt Regency Dallas rolled out the welcome mat for Watter. [Photo: Watter]<\/p>\n

Dallas-based AI infrastructure startup Watter just rolled out a waste-heat-to-water platform for commercial buildings. Its first customer: Hyatt Regency Dallas at Reunion Tower.<\/p>\n

Watter\u2019s hardware captures heat from computer servers inside a commercial building and converts it to hot water for the building. A server emits almost all of the energy it uses. Most servers operate at roughly 5% to 15% capacity but run in full-power mode.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s consumer product, a high-tech residential water heater, captures waste heat from electronic devices to produce hot water, James Hancock, co-founder and CEO of Watter, told Dallas Innovates.<\/p>\n

Hyatt Regency Dallas launch<\/p>\n

Watter launched its commercial platform, anchored by AI computing hardware set up inside buildings, at the 28-story Hyatt hotel adjacent to Reunion Tower. The 50-story tower has been a skyline fixture since 1978.<\/p>\n

Watter said the commercial system can offset water-heating costs while potentially generating revenue from hosting servers, much like a mini data center.<\/p>\n

The Hyatt project demonstrates that AI computing \u201cdoesn\u2019t have to live exclusively in massive purpose-built data centers,\u201d the company said in a statement. \u201cHotels already have physical space, electrical capacity and significant hot water demand, creating an opportunity to put both the [computing power] and its waste heat to productive use.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hidden infrastructure<\/p>\n

Watter, founded in 2024, said hotels like the 1,120-room Hyatt Regency Dallas are ideal candidates for its commercial model.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen most people look at a hotel, they see a hospitality asset. We see infrastructure hiding in plain sight,\u201d Hancock said in a statement. \u201cWe didn\u2019t start by asking how to build a better data center. We started by asking what existing resources were being overlooked.\u201d<\/p>\n

A subsidiary of Dallas-based Hunt Realty owns Hyatt Regency Dallas and Reunion Tower. Watter is a spinout of Hunt Innovative Technologies, which sits under the Hunt Energy umbrella.<\/p>\n

Hunter Hunt, chairman, president and CEO of Hunt Energy and Hunt Oil, said in a statement that the Hyatt\u2019s newly installed Watter equipment lowers natural gas consumption while counterbalancing energy consumption by data centers.<\/p>\n

The Watter technology represents a move away from \u201ctraditional data compute solutions and is a creative way of using waste heat from distributed [computing] to preheat water going into a boiler.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s ahead<\/p>\n

The Hyatt project is the first of three commercial installations planned by Watter. The company said it has a pipeline of more than 200 hotel properties across two ownership groups prepared to adopt the Watter system.<\/p>\n

Watter has raised capital as it moves into the commercial market.<\/p>\n

Last year, the company raised $5 million in seed funding<\/a> from Hunt Innovative Technologies and 17Shoals, a Dallas-based investment vehicle for investor Tracey Maynor. The startup raised an undisclosed amount of money earlier this year, Hancock told Dallas Innovates.<\/p>\n

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