Ecolab is spending $1.8 billion for a high-tech business that purifies water for data centers and semiconductor operations.

The St. Paul, Minnesota-based company’s deal is for Montreal-based Ovivo Inc.’s electronics division, which has about $500 million in annual revenue and 900 employees.

“Ovivo Electronics’ unique technologies deliver the world’s purest water, which is essential for manufacturing today’s most advanced microchips,” said Christophe Beck’s, Ecolab’s chief executive, in a news release.

The slightest amount of contaminants can ruin products for semiconductor manufacturers, so they must have ultra-pure water. The water also is becoming more and more important to how AI data centers run.

Ecolab will integrate the advanced technologies from Ovivo with its own global solutio

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