Data Centre Magazine April 2022 | Page 76

WYOMING HYPERSCALE

Wyoming

Hyperscale
running through adjoining acreage owned by the family​ .”
Trenton Thornock , the Founder and Managing Member of Wyoming Hyperscale White Box , says “ one of the things we wanted to do was to create a situation where our tenants could find things that they can ' t find anywhere else in the world .”
“ My background as a CFO had me doing large scale industrial developments all over the world ,” says Thornock . “ I ' ve built plants in China , started businesses in Russia and South America , and just everywhere else you can imagine .”
Wyoming Hyperscale is Thornock ’ s purpose-driven mission and feels like a grand opus to a career of formidable industry and business relationships .
Wyoming Hyperscale is a data centre project that uses negligible water and power by relying on Liquid Immersion Cooling ( LIC ). “ In addition to the operating efficiency … is a connection to an indoor farming facility .”
Farming is carbon negative and by growing produce that is sold locally on the same land as the data centre , obviating the need for haulage from elsewhere , social value impact is embedded here for the community , climate and customer .
The project uses resources on site , taps into renewable sources and maximises the use of an ideal situation by , frankly , making sure it is ideal from the planning stage .
Benefits of the set-up run deep and by building the concept from the ground-up , Thornock can maximise the benefits of using LIC to speed up construction .
“ One of the benefits we get from liquid cooling is we don ' t have to hang a lot of stuff overhead , so all that HVAC equipment goes away ,” says Thornock . “ We still have pipes where we have to move the heat , but those can be on the floor , which means we don ' t have a lot of suspended stuff overhead . “ That has a knock on effect in the engineering , in that our data halls are clear
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