The Data Center Heat-Cascade Building: A Companion Paper to The Luke, Maryland Verso Equilibrium Plan
The Data Center Heat-Cascade Building A Companion Paper to The Luke, Maryland Verso Equilibrium Plan DOI: to be assigned John Swygert Ivory Tower Journal / Secretary Suite / TSTOEAO Applied Civic Systems June 26, 2026 Introduction: The Building as a Thermal Organism The Luke, Maryland Verso Equilibrium Plan argues that the former Verso paper mill site in Luke, Maryland should not be redeveloped as a single-purpose industrial parcel. It should be planned as a larger equilibrium campus: a place where energy, water, heat, rail, business, education, ecology, and labor are designed to work together. This companion paper develops one specific building concept within that larger plan: The Data Center Heat-Cascade Building. The concept is simple. If a data center or server farm produces constant heat, and if people, businesses, schools, restaurants, housing, clinics, laundries, greenhouses, and workshops need heat and hot water, then the building should be designed to move heat from where...