A better neighbor than a conventional data center
Cleaner air · a stronger grid · far less water · shared heat · lasting tax base
Clean air by design — no combustion on site
The facility makes electricity through an electrochemical reaction in solid-oxide fuel cells — not by burning fuel. Removing combustion removes the source of smog-forming pollutants.
Near-zero criteria pollutants. NOx, SOx and fine particulates are a tiny fraction of any combustion-based generation.
No diesel generator farm. On-site fuel cells provide resilience — no bank of diesel gensets needing emissions-producing test runs.
Cleanest-tier generation. The technology qualifies under the strictest distributed-generation air-quality standards in the U.S.
Local health benefit. Avoids the NOx, SOx and particulate exposure linked to respiratory and cardiovascular harm.
Illustrative comparison — combustion generation vs. on-site fuel cells.
Reusing buildings, not replacing them
The greenest building is the one that already exists. Where a site allows, we adapt an existing industrial structure instead of demolishing and rebuilding — avoiding the largest one-time carbon cost of new construction.
Embodied carbon avoided
Reusing the shell, foundation and structure avoids the concrete- and steel-intensive emissions that dominate a new building's footprint.
Faster, lower-impact build
Building inside an existing envelope shortens construction — fewer years of site disturbance, truck traffic and dust for neighbors.
Productive use of land
Returns large, underutilized parcels in an industrial corridor to active, high-value employment use.
No teardown. Adaptive reuse meaningfully lowers build cost versus greenfield and keeps demolition waste out of the landfill — a faster path to power with a smaller footprint.
We strengthen the grid — we don't burden it
Because power is generated on-site behind the meter, the facility doesn't pull its load from the public grid. It's a true microgrid that can support local reliability.
From load to asset — what the facility gives back
Frees grid capacity for the community. Self-supply leaves existing substation and transmission headroom available for homes and businesses.
Defers costly utility upgrades. Exportable capacity can help defer new peaker plants and transmission build-out.
Sub-second grid stabilization. Inverter-based generation can deliver fast frequency response and voltage support.
No interconnection-queue strain. Behind-the-meter siting sidesteps the multi-year load-interconnection backlog.
Closed-loop cooling — a fraction of the water
Most data centers evaporate large volumes of water for cooling. Our closed-loop, direct-to-chip system uses on the order of 60× less than a conventional evaporative facility.
~98% less water than traditional evaporative data-center cooling.
No strain on municipal supply negligible draw on local drinking-water and sewer systems.
Drought-resilient a closed loop is unaffected by seasonal water restrictions.
Heat goes to use captured heat becomes a district-energy asset, not evaporated away.
| Site size (IT load) | Our closed-loop | Relative draw | Evaporative DC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 MW | ~30 homes | ~1,900 homes | |
| 100 MW | ~65 homes | ~3,800 homes | |
| 250 MW | ~160 homes | ~9,500 homes | |
| 500 MW | ~315 homes | ~19,000 homes | |
| 1 GW | ~635 homes | ~38,000 homes |
Illustrative. Closed-loop ~0.03 L/kWh vs. ~1.8 L/kWh evaporative; avg. U.S. home ≈ 300 gal/day (EPA).
Turning exhaust heat into district energy
Many cities run district heating loops that rely on burning natural gas. Recovered exhaust heat from the facility can feed those loops — letting the system deliver heat without combustion.
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Data Center
The closed-loop cooling system captures server exhaust heat instead of evaporating it away.
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Heat Exchange
A clean thermal hand-off transfers that heat to the local district-energy interconnect.
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District Energy
The hot-water loop delivers heat to homes, institutions and businesses across the community.
The same fuel does double duty. Our fuel cells already emit far less CO₂ than coal or grid gas plants. When recovered heat then displaces combustion at the district plant, a second round of fuel-burning is avoided — and the community's total emissions fall.
Strong tax value, very low service demand
Per acre, a data center is among the highest-value uses permitted under industrial zoning — generating substantial tax revenue while asking very little of municipal services.
| Allowed use | Tax value / acre | Municipal service demand | Net fiscal impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data center (this platform) | Highest | Very low | Strongly positive |
| Light industrial / warehouse | Low–moderate | Moderate | Modest |
| Mixed-use commercial | Moderate | Moderate–high | Neutral–positive |
| Residential | Low per acre | High (schools, services) | Often net cost |
Minimal service draw. No students, low traffic, low public-safety demand — the revenue a facility generates far exceeds the city services it consumes.
Connectivity that benefits the community
Siting compute inside a metro — rather than a remote exurban campus — places high-capacity fiber and low-latency processing near the people and institutions that rely on it.
Carrier-grade fiber
Investment in fiber routes serving the site strengthens digital infrastructure across the surrounding corridor.
Low latency for locals
Compute physically close to the metro means faster response for nearby business, healthcare, education and public services.
Edge capacity for institutions
Supports latency-sensitive AI, research and real-time data for regional organizations — no long round-trips to distant data centers.
Digital resilience
An always-on, islanding-capable facility adds local capacity and reliability to the region's digital backbone.
Clean air. A stronger grid. Shared heat. Lasting value.
The real race isn't who pours the most concrete — it's who can deliver reliable power, at scale, on a timeline that matches the demand for compute. By treating energy and compute as one system, we do exactly that — and the communities that host us are better off for it.
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