EQT Shows Plans for Mt. Comfort Technology Campus in Hancock County, Indiana
EQT is proposing the Mt. Comfort Technology Campus, a data center campus with several buildings in Buck Creek Township, Hancock County, Indiana, and held a public open house on the plan. EQT says the buildings would use air-cooled closed-loop systems instead of evaporative cooling to keep water use low.
Our summary of an article from Greenfield Daily Reporter. Read the original at Greenfield Daily Reporter
What It Means
Central Indiana now has more than one large campus proposal moving forward at once, and cooling choices sit at the center of the local conversation. Choosing air-cooled closed-loop systems over evaporative cooling cuts water demand, but it shifts the engineering work toward heat rejection, power for the mechanical plant, and how equipment is laid out on site. Teams delivering projects like this need to settle those trade-offs early, while the public approval process is still going on.
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