Lake Hawkeye will not draw cooling water from Cayuga Lake
Company: TeraWulf
The claim, verbatim
The facility will use a closed-loop cooling system supplied by Bolton Point, the local utility. It will not draw water from the lake, and the lake intake will be used only for dust control.
Source (primary)
TeraWulf suggests it will take legal action if Lansing pursues data center ban - The Ithaca Voice (-, news_article)
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Quote: “the company has assured officials that it would use the water intake infrastructure only for dust control”
How we checked this
Checked on October 14, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article reports each of these points as statements by TeraWulf and its representatives. It also notes that Bolton Point itself draws water from Cayuga Lake.
Confirmed in the source:
- The facility will use a closed-loop cooling system
- Water for the closed-loop system will come from Bolton Point, the local utility
- The facility will not draw water from the lake
- The water intake infrastructure will be used only for dust control
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://ithacavoice.org/2026/10/terawulf-suggests-it-will-take-legal-action-if-lansing-pursues-data-center-ban/) in full (11,977 characters, retrieved October 10, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms TeraWulf suggests it will take legal action if Lansing pursues data center ban - The Ithaca Voice
Quote: “the company has assured officials that it would use the water intake infrastructure only for dust control”