Data Centre Magazine April 2022 | Page 74

Wyoming Hyperscale is Trenton Thornock ' s vision of a liquid-cooled , renewable-fueled , minimal power , no-water , and carbon-negative data centre made real
WYOMING HYPERSCALE
Wyoming Hyperscale is Trenton Thornock ' s vision of a liquid-cooled , renewable-fueled , minimal power , no-water , and carbon-negative data centre made real

Wyoming Hyperscale White Box , or just Wyoming Hyperscale , has a story behind it that is a modern version of an old corporate founding retelling . A forwardthinking , future-proof , family firm in the Old American West .

Wyoming Hyperscale is the brainchild of siblings on a family ranch near Evanston , Wyoming . Bought from a bankruptcy in the 1990s , the 12,000-acre plot sits 2,316 metres ( 7,600 feet ) above sea level , on the northern ridgetop of Aspen Mountain .
The tagline “ The End of Air Cooling ” spells out neatly how innovative the project is . It is a fully sustainable , innovative and allinclusive data centre solution .
The project offers : a 30MW critical IT load , 10MW vaults using under 1200 square metres , a dedicated on-site substation with 120MW design capacity , ​80kW average rack density , 100 + kW / rack high-density compute capacity at scale , less than half the per megawatt capital cost of comparable cold plate HPC [ high-performance computing ] expansions . It is also the first “ geothermalcoupled ” hyperscale data centre known .
According to the company itself , it is “ the hyperscale you should have been planning and permitting for immediate construction - two years ago​ ” with the “ potential for infinite runtime with diverse natural gas storage and multiple high pressure gas transmission lines
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