en.Wedoany.com Reported - On July 6, the City Commission of Parsons, Kansas, USA, approved a land purchase option agreement with data center developer HyperDataGrid. The company plans to acquire approximately 20 acres of land in the Torrence Creek Industrial Park to build a high-density data center with a planned capacity of 20MW. The current approval only covers the land option and preliminary due diligence; the project still requires separate approval for formal construction to commence.
The proposed project will adopt a high-density liquid cooling architecture. HyperDataGrid, headquartered in Texas, designs its data center solutions primarily for high-power loads such as artificial intelligence training and high-performance computing. The cooling system uses direct-to-chip technology, delivering cooling medium directly near major heat-generating components like processors and graphics processing units, with heat removed through closed-loop piping. Unlike traditional methods that rely on air circulation within the server room to dissipate heat, direct-to-chip cooling reduces the spread of heat from inside servers to the room environment, accommodating computing equipment with continuously increasing power density.
The developer states that its facilities use a closed-loop cooling system, where the cooling medium circulates between pipes, cold plates, and heat exchange equipment, without relying on continuous discharge of cooling water for heat dissipation. This architecture also minimizes direct contact between the cooling system and the external environment, allowing flow rate, temperature, and pressure to be centrally controlled within the internal loop.
HyperDataGrid's disclosed standardized design supports a maximum load of 600kW per single rack. This figure represents the design ceiling for its high-density rack solution, not the average power of all racks in the proposed project. At this level, traditional air cooling systems struggle to maintain chip operating temperatures by merely increasing airflow; servers require cold plates, coolant supply lines, coolant distribution units, and leak detection devices. The server room's power supply and distribution system also needs to be reconfigured with busways, power distribution units, and redundant paths around high-power racks. Public information has not yet disclosed the number of servers, rack scale, backup power type, or specific energy efficiency metrics for the Parsons project.
The project site is located in the Torrence Creek Industrial Park in Parsons. At this stage, the purchase option agreement primarily reserves the land for the developer and allows it to verify site conditions, power access, communication lines, construction permits, and other infrastructure requirements. Completing due diligence does not equate to obtaining construction permits; subsequent construction will still require a separate proposal submission and approval process.
HyperDataGrid states that its standard 20MW data center can be delivered within 12 months, but the Parsons project has not yet announced a start date or commissioning timeline. In addition to the Kansas project, the company has listed two data center development plans in Texas, with few construction details disclosed so far.
Currently confirmed technical configurations include a 20MW planned capacity, high-density racks, direct-to-chip cooling, and a closed-loop cooling system. The land size is approximately 20 acres, and the project remains in the site selection and due diligence phase, with formal construction yet to begin.
