Orion's Way retrofits existing large-format buildings — grocery stores, big-box retail, former industrial sites — into high-density compute and data center capacity, using passive wind-catcher cooling and waste heat recovery instead of new construction on farmland.
Across Wisconsin, county and town boards are passing moratoriums on new data center construction. The conventional model clears farmland, asks a community to sign an NDA before it even sees a site plan, and cycles enormous volumes of water through cooling towers. Orion's Way is built around what communities have actually said they object to.
Compute capacity is built on rooftops and air rights above commercial and industrial buildings already standing — no new land clearing, no farmland converted.
A Badgir-derived passive cooling system moves air without the water-intensive cooling towers conventional facilities depend on.
Heat that would otherwise be exhausted is captured and routed back into community energy use — heating, greenhouses, district loops.
Every material fact about a site — power draw, water use, noise, jobs, tax contribution, ownership — is published before a shovel goes in the ground.
The conventional model asks a community to sign an NDA before it even sees a site plan. Orion's Way publishes this instead — before construction begins, and for as long as the facility runs.