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Orion's Way Wants to Put Data Centers Above Existing Buildings

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A Sharon, Wisconsin project proposes retrofitting grocery stores, big-box buildings, and former industrial sites into high-density compute facilities instead of clearing farmland.

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Orion's Way pairs rooftop and air-rights construction with Badgir-derived passive cooling and waste-heat recovery. Its most distinctive promise is procedural: publish power, water, noise, jobs, ownership, and community energy data before construction begins.

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