At Prairie Bunkers Data Center Park in Nebraska, where the in-ground temperature is about 55 degrees, our drilling contractor Leuck's Drilling and Great Plains Data Center Builders have designed an in-ground, closed-loop, "geothermal" cooling system which is estimated to reduce cooling costs by 50% in our DataBunkers. Such systmes are in broad use throughout the Midwest, in Canada, Sweden and Germany, where they are known as "bore-hole" systems. Geothermal cooling will become a standard technology to reduce operating costs, as well as to increase the "sustainability" and PUE ratings, of data centers.
Gary Hultquist, Chairman
Prairie Bunkers, LLC
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