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Inside a Decommissioned Nuclear Silo From the Cold War - Business Insider
Halik's decommissioned nuclear silo is 165 feet deep. Nuclear Bunker Living/YouTube 2026-04-12T15:01:12.192Z Entrepreneur Nik Halik bought a defunct nuclear missile silo in Colorado for over $10 million. The US government once used the facility to power, house, and potentially fire nuclear missiles. Halik plans to turn the 200,000-square-foot facility into a data center to power AI. A decommissioned nuclear silo near Denver, Colorado, that could once launch three 4.5-megaton nuclear missiles at a moment's notice is now an entrepreneur's pet project.Nik Halik, an Australian venture capitalist, purchased the decommissioned Cold War-era nuclear missile silo from the US government in 2021 for more than $10 million. For the past five years, Halik has been overseeing its transformation into a modern, renovated facility, where he plans to house an AI data center.The project is on brand for Halik, a self-described "thrillionaire" whose past endeavors have included skydiving over Mount Everest, training in Russia as a civilian cosmonaut, and diving 5 miles deep to the deck of the Titanic.He said his interest in these types of structures pairs with his vision for what they could become."I'm immersed in the world of castles and underground bunkers," Halik told Business Insider. "I'm a value-facturer. I like things that I can add value to."Halik took Business Insider on a tour of the facility. See what it looks like inside the roughly 75-year-old nuclear silo. The facility was built in Colorado in 1959 for $47 million, or $350 million in today's dollars. Other Titan I silos like Halik's were built in Colorado. Carl Iwasaki/Getty Images At the beginning of the Cold War, the US began developing intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) at a rapid pace. Following the US' first operational ICBM, the SM-65 Atlas, the Titan I went under development in the mid-1950s.According to the National Park Service, the Titan I missiles were 98 feet tall and could deliver a nuclear warhead over 6,000 miles.Eighteen silos, like Halik's and the one pictured, were built across the US to house these missiles during the Cold War. Four large diesel engines powered the facility. Another Titan I silo near Denver. Thanks to diesel power, the facilities could be powered without the grid. Carl Iwasaki/Getty Images Thanks to the silo's use of diesel fuel, it had the ability to stay running without being connected to the electrical grid. The amount of fuel in the silo was enough to fu...
A data center is being proposed in NW Colorado Springs, neighbors have ...
Neighbors in northwest Colorado Springs are not happy about a proposed data center that could be moving in nearby. Dozens of you have emailed our newsroom in the last week about this. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — A proposed data center in northwest Colorado Springs is drawing concerns from neighbors in the Chelsea Glen neighborhood.The data center, known as “Project Taurus” is in the process of gaining approval to move into the former Intel chip facility near Garden of the Gods road.Even on a windy day in the neighborhood, homeowners like Kate Kent can hear the birds. Her home backs up to open space and a clear view of the facility.“Honestly, this [the open space] is what attracted us [here], even though there is an industrial center right there, like we knew that eventually someone was going to move in there,” Kent said.Four years since she purchased her home, she’s now concerned about the building’s next business: a proposed data center owned by the Oakland, Calif. Company “Raeden”.In 2018, a crypto mining business “3G Venture” moved in to the former Intel building. Neighbors like Ron Graham-Becker, who has lived in the neighborhood for nearly 30 years said in the years 3G Venture was present, brought an unwelcome noise.“The noise was outrageous, and it was 24 hours a day, seven days a week, no breaks unless something broke down on their side,” Graham-Becker said.News5 interviewed Graham-Becker in 2019, at the time, 3G Venture set up shipping storage container to mitigate the noise. While Graham-Becker said at the time it improved the noise conditions, he said the noise problems still continued through 2022.“During that four years of noise, it was it was a battle of what was legal, what was not, what was violation, what was not, but when it finally turned off for good, was like, let's have a block party. Let's just pull out all the liquor and everything else, not really, but that was it was an excitement time,” Graham-Becker said.Graham-Becker and Kent are concerned the noise could be another issue with the data center moving in. 3G Venture is still listed as the owner of the property, but COO and co-founder of Raeden, Jason Green said the company is simply doing a real estate transaction with the 3G Venture.“I don't want to disparage 3G, our business is not their business. We are buying the building. So Raeden is buying the building from 3G, we are in our final due diligence phases. We have an exclusive to purchase the building. We have already spe...
Colorado Springs residents fired up over proposed AI data center
The data center is rated to use up to 50 megawatts, limited by a power purchase agreement Raeden signed with Colorado Springs Utilities.
AI data center could come to Colorado Springs - KRDO
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - A new data center is being proposed to fill what used to be a chip manufacturer's plant off of Garden of the Gods Road.
