Closed-loop cooling; no lake water draw at Lake Hawkeye
Company: TeraWulf
The claim, verbatim
TeraWulf says the Lake Hawkeye facility will use a closed-loop cooling system and will not draw water from Cayuga Lake; the water intake will be used only for dust control, and cooling water will come from the Bolton Point utility.
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. Company representatives have also stated the water for the closed-loop system will come from Bolton Point”
How we checked this
Checked on October 14, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article attributes all of these points to TeraWulf and its representatives.
Confirmed in the source:
- TeraWulf says the facility will use a closed-loop cooling system
- TeraWulf says the facility will not draw water from Cayuga Lake
- The water intake will be used only for dust control
- Cooling water will come from the Bolton Point utility
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. Company representatives have also stated the water for the closed-loop system will come from Bolton Point”