A data center campus is being proposed near the southern border of Kansas.

First reported by Sumner News Now, the Wellington city council is set to meet this week to discuss an energy sales agreement between the city and Canadian firm Cormor for the development of a 3D printed data center.

The project is a collaboration between 3D construction firm Cormor and Florida-based data center firm Data Shelter. The proposed project location is a parcel owned by the Humane Society, situated just north of the City limits but within the city’s utility service territory.

According to a city presentation, the facility would initially offer 14.7MW via 5MW modular pods, with potential to eventually reach 100MW.

The Tier IV-quality facility will reportedly use a proprietary waterless cooling system and offer densities of 160kW per rack. It will use a flywheel UPS.

Wellington is a city in and the county seat of Sumner County, located between the city of Wichita and the state’s southern border with Oklahoma.

Data Shelter was founded in 2016 by a group of investors that had acquired a Cold War-era underground nuclear bunker in Florida that had been part of the US Department of Defense’s AutoVon early warning system built in the 1960s. Due to relaunch as a data center in 2018, that site was reportedly for sale in 2024 and listed as “permitted to be a Tier IV data center.”

Cormor is a Canadian 3D construction general contracting firm. On its website, the company said it has partnered with Data Shelter to form Cormor Data Shelter (CDS), which will be focused on developing Tier IV-quality facilities

The Wellington site is listed as CDS’ first project on the company’s website. The 31,000 sq ft (2,880 sqm) site will reportedly offer capacity for 384 racks.

In a LinkedIn post last year, Cormor said CDS has several projects in the late planning stages, ranging from 15 to 30MW.

3D printing as a construction method – where layers of concrete are used to build the main structure of a building – is still a rarity, and even rarer in industrial developments. At least one data center, located in Germany, has been 3D printed, with DCD profiling the facility in 2024.