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Anchor tenant & offtake

Anchor Tenant & Offtake.

Your build becomes financeable when a creditworthy tenant commits to your compute in writing. We bring the buyer access and the negotiation that get your site to that signature, on terms a lender will accept.

SIGNED OFFTAKE · INVESTMENT-GRADE TENANT
What this layer is

A build is bankable the day a tenant signs.

An offtake agreement is a long-term contract in which a creditworthy buyer commits to purchase a fixed volume of your compute, often on take-or-pay terms, for years. That contract is what a lender underwrites: it converts a powered site and a plan into a predictable revenue stream a bank can size debt against.

Until a buyer commits, everything upstream is cost. Once an investment-grade tenant signs, the debt can be raised, the hardware ordered, and the rest of the build sequenced with confidence.

The contract is the asset

What one contract carries.

$11.9B
a single AI lab's reported multi-year compute commitment to one neocloud in 2025.
62%
the share of a leading neocloud's 2024 revenue that came from a single anchor tenant, per its IPO filing.
10–15 yrs
the term a creditworthy anchor signs on a hyperscale lease, long enough to amortize the whole build.
From interest to commitment

What a financeable offtake has to carry.

A lender underwrites the exact terms of a signed contract, not interest or intent. Four terms decide whether the contract can carry a financing.

01

A buyer with real credit

Lenders underwrite the tenant's balance sheet, so the anchor needs an investment-grade rating or something close to it.

02

Take-or-pay terms

The commitment has to hold whether or not the tenant fills every megawatt. Take-or-pay terms are what let a lender treat the revenue as firm rather than forecast.

03

A term that outlasts the debt

The contract has to run long enough for a lender to amortize the build, typically well past ten years. The whole capital structure is sized to this term.

04

Capacity the tenant actually specified

The offtake has to match what the site can genuinely deliver: power, timeline, density, uptime. Commitments the site cannot meet surface in diligence and reprice or unwind the deal.

Why it is hard to assemble alone

Everyone knows who the buyers are. Few hold a route to them.

The demand sits behind a short list

Creditworthy compute demand lives with a handful of hyperscalers, AI labs, and the neoclouds they back. You do not reach their capacity teams with a cold email.

Diligence runs deep

Before a buyer of that size signs, it examines your firm power, your delivery date, your redundancy and your balance sheet. A weakness in any one of them is usually enough to stall the process.

The terms decide the financing

Price, escalators, term length, take-or-pay, credit support: every clause moves what a lender will advance. The offtake and the debt have to be negotiated together for the economics to close.

What we bring

The tenant, and the terms that make it bankable.

  • Routes to real demand: warm access to the hyperscalers, AI labs and neoclouds who actually sign offtakes.
  • A site packaged to survive diligence: your power, timeline and redundancy assembled into the package a buyer's team will underwrite.
  • Terms shaped for bankability: take-or-pay, term length, escalators and credit support negotiated so the contract is one a lender will finance.
  • The tenant sequenced ahead of the capital raise, since the offtake terms set what everything else prices at.
SIGNED · TAKE-OR-PAY · FINANCEABLE
Who we bring to this layer

The names that sign the checks.

Creditworthy demand for AI compute sits with a short list of buyers and the neoclouds they back. We maintain the routes to them and run the process end to end.

A powered shell is a cost until a creditworthy tenant signs. The signature is the moment it becomes a business.

Who would sign for your compute?

Tell us the site and the capacity you can deliver. We'll come back with an honest read on the demand you can realistically land.

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