The constraint on new AI capacity is power: a live, high-capacity connection to the grid. We establish what your interconnect can deliver, at what cost, and turn it into a power story a tenant and a lender will sign against.
A working neocloud draws tens to hundreds of megawatts, without interruption. Building the interconnect to carry that from scratch takes years of study and approval. That queue is what keeps most planned AI capacity offline.
A powered site already has the connection: an idle industrial plant, a shut smelter, a former mining or power site. What remains is our work: establishing how much of the power is firm, at what cost, and documenting it to the standard a creditworthy tenant expects.
Four kinds of work usually remain before a tenant can rely on the site.
Your connection was sized for its old job. A former power plant is the harder case: it has to flip from exporting power to drawing it, which can mean a utility re-study and new equipment.
Nameplate ratings overstate what you can count on. We establish how many megawatts are deliverable firm, around the clock, before a tenant asks.
AI clusters draw dense, spiky load, unlike the steady industrial or generation profile the site was built around. That can mean reconfiguring distribution inside the fence.
A creditworthy tenant expects uptime the original use never required. Where the grid alone will not carry it, behind-the-meter generation and storage close the gap.
A connection rated for hundreds of megawatts rarely delivers all of it, firm, around the clock. Sorting nameplate from what the grid will actually guarantee takes engineering the seller usually cannot show you.
Power has to be sized to a cluster that has not been designed yet, so the power plan, the tenant conversation and the cluster design have to move together.
Where the grid is not firm or cheap enough, behind-the-meter gas, fuel cells and storage change the economics, and the emissions profile that lenders and tenants will scrutinize. Each is its own procurement and build.
Generation, grid supply and firm capacity are delivered by partners. Our role is to select them, sequence them and hold the plan together.
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Schneider ElectricThe chip shortage will pass. A live connection to the grid at scale will not stop being scarce.
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