The Hallam Village Board unanimously approved a special use permit for a 35-megawatt data center at Monolith's Olive Creek site. Crusoe will build the 10-acre modular facility on land that already hosts Monolith's carbon black plant. The vote ends one approval hurdle, though construction has no announced timeline yet. Crusoe has agreed to pay Hallam $1 million once the facility is operational, plus $150,000 annually for 10 years. The village plans to create a committee to decide how to spend that money, with the park and infrastructure listed as possible uses. The article does not detail where the data center's power will come from or how it will connect to the grid, which will matter for the project's actual emissions profile.
