Intel’s Biggest Water Facility Hits a Milestone: 1 Billion Gallons Recycled

Picture Niagara Falls, one of the great waterfalls on Earth. Now keep your eyes on that thundering cascade for a full 26 minutes. That amount of water — 1 billion gallons — is the basis of a new Intel milestone.  The new water recycling plant at Intel’s Ronler Acres campus in Hillsboro, Oregon, recently surpassed the billion-gallon mark, underscoring the company’s global efforts to reuse the water it needs for advanced computer chip manufacturing.