Floodmark Foundation
PLANNED · 501(c)(3) · NOT YET FORMED

"Floodmark Foundation exists to make the community a stakeholder in its own wetland habitat, and to turn that vantage point into research that changes how the data center industry coexists with the land it occupies."

Floodmark Foundation is a planned nonprofit initiative, being designed as part of the Watchtower Data campus. It does not yet exist — but this is what it is meant to become.

The Idea

A foundation with two purposes — and each one strengthens the other.

Open to the community

Floodmark is planned to include a wetlands interpretive center, open to the public and to local schools — a place built around community-centered education and genuine connection to the wetland habitat that surrounds the campus.

The goal is not tourism. It is community ownership — the idea that the people who live near this place should have a real relationship with it, and a say in how its story is told.

An instrument for research

The campus itself is being designed as a living laboratory — instrumented to study waste-heat reuse, low-impact cooling, and habitat co-existence at the scale of a real, operating data center.

Findings are intended to be shared openly across future Watchtower campuses — and, where possible, across the broader industry. The goal is not competitive advantage. It is a better template.

What You'll Find Here

Four planned programs — designed to travel.

Each program name is designed to carry across future Watchtower campuses — adapted to each site's specific place, history, and partners, but consistent in purpose and structure.

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"Before We Were Here"

An anchor exhibit gallery on the land's ecology and history before development, built in partnership with the indigenous nation local to each site — a record of what was here, told by those who know it best.

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"The Land Around Us"

Interactive science galleries on local terrain and ecosystems, extending outdoors via an elevated boardwalk trail through the campus. The learning environment is the habitat itself.

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"Watchtower Rising"

The campus's own story: the mass timber structure, the geothermal and cooling systems, and the engineering decisions made to reduce the footprint of a working data center. Transparency as exhibit.

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"The Research Wing"

Active research visible to visitors through glass walls, conducted in partnership with local universities — on waste-heat reuse, habitat co-existence, and low-impact cooling. The campus as living laboratory.

Rooted in Partnership

The history of a place belongs to the people who have the longest relationship with it.

Each Floodmark site is planned to be built in partnership with the indigenous nation local to that place. That partner is intended to hold a meaningful voice in how their history is told — not as a consultant, but as a co-author.

Those conversations are ongoing. We are not in a position to name partners before agreements are in place. When they are, you will hear it from us directly.

Stay Informed

We're still building this.

Floodmark Foundation has not yet been formed. If you'd like to follow along as it takes shape — whether you're a neighbor, a school, a researcher, or just curious — reach out and we'll keep you in the loop.

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