In a few months, the Granite Block Global Data Center will open, and the transformation of one of downtown's largest old mill buildings will be complete.

Granite Block Global Data Center in Fall River, Massachusetts has plans on the drawing board to add geothermal cooling systems to supplement traditional systems that are already in place.

Developers in Fall River, Massachusetts recently won local zoning-board approval to go ahead with their plans to transform an old unused smokestack factory into a new wind-powered data center facility.

Will get part of its power from tall turbines in repurposed smokestack factory

Real estate developers in Fall River, Massachusetts want to convert a vacant mill into a data center, and plan to use wind turbines to generate some of the 20 megawatts of power needed to support the project.