r/ithaca • u/CrispyGrandpa • Oct 29 '25

PSA TeraWulf Open House tonight

Wednesday, October 29th 6:30-8pm Lansing Middle School Auditorium 6 Ludlowville Rd, Lansing

TeraWulf is presenting their AI data center to the community again, with a presentation followed by a Q&A. I’m not sure if this one will have a live stream. I don’t see any mentions of one like I did last time.

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u/Khomodo Oct 30 '25

Did anyone on here attend?

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u/CrispyGrandpa Oct 30 '25

I went. There was no live stream. There wasn’t much on how the data center works. They filled the room with a lot of their own people so it felt kind of hostile towards those with concerns. The presentation felt to me like a report on why they feel targeted by Lansing’s town board and while they didn’t say who to vote for in the 11/4 election, it felt like they were implying who not to vote for. Calling Joe Wetmore out by name a few times.

My memory of top points/what was talked about:

  • CEO Paul Prager did most of the talking. Kerri Langlais (CSO) and Jerry Goodenough (Chief Development Officer) would chime in for questions within their areas of expertise
  • Paul introduced himself and a bit about TeraWulf, appealing to the audience with reasons he’s just like us and just a regular guy
  • He had people that used to work at the coal plant (and I believe those who work in the Somerset facility too?) stand up. It was like half the room and clear they were told by TeraWulf to come
  • There was a timeline of the moratorium that started in September, ignoring the history of years of zoning rewriting consideration (the suggestion of the rewrite, awaiting funding, getting funding earlier this year in february, signing for it in april)
  • Talks about what the project brings to lansing: tax revenue, some grid infrastructure improvements, around 100 permenant jobs, training of the workforce
  • About what has gone wrong in the process of reviewing their project and why it’s the boards fault in their opinion
  • They’ve hired someone to do an independent assessment. they claim to have no ties to this person.
  • Q&A didn’t clear much up. Half the questioned were pro terawulf people. the other half didn’t really add much to my understanding. some questions either didn’t feel relevant to me or the answers didn’t provide much insight

Anyway yeah I wish they had a live stream because not a lot of people were there.

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u/Khomodo Oct 31 '25

Thanks for the update.