page_title: Superconducting Super Collider
section_title: Current status of site
hierarchical_section_title: Superconducting Super Collider / Current status of site
caption_attribution_description: English: Panorama of the site at the Superconducting Super Collider in Waxahachie, TX, as of August 8, 2008.
context_page_description: The Superconducting Super Collider was a particle accelerator complex under construction in the vicinity of Waxahachie, Texas.
  Its planned ring circumference was 87.1 kilometers with an energy of 20 TeV per proton and was set to be the world's largest and most energetic. The project's director was Roy Schwitters, a physicist at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Louis Ianniello served as its first Project Director for 15 months. After 22.5 km of tunnel were bored and nearly two billion dollars were spent, the project was cancelled in 1993 due to budget problems.
context_section_description: After the project was cancelled, the main site was deeded to Ellis County, Texas, and the county tried numerous times to sell the property. The property was finally sold in August 2006 to an investment group led by the late J.B. Hunt.
  In 2009, Collider Data Center had contracted with GVA Cawley to market the site as a data center.  In 2012, Chemical company Magnablend bought the property and facilities against some opposition from the local community.  The buildings in the facility, which had become prime spots for thieves and drug parties, were renovated and were re-opened in 2013 by Magnablend.  The facility makes a range of oil field products for the energy service industry.
caption: View of the SSC site, 2008
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