A Southern Methodist University business professor who studied the planning and water-use filings for the BT Aycock Data Center, proposed for land east of Princeton, expects the 75-megawatt project to bring construction disruption first and a heavy power draw later, according to the Princeton Herald.
Sreekumar Bhaskaran, who chairs the Information Technology and Operations Management Department at SMU's Cox School of Business, sees truck traffic, dust and noise as the likely early effects on the rural area around the site, the Herald reported.
Once the center is running, traffic should drop off sharply in his view. The trade-off is electricity: the facility would become a substantial user of power.
The project also relies on an unusual cooling design that is meant to keep its water consumption low, according to the Herald's account of his review.
