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From: Axios Generate (2 June 2025):

The startup GridFree AI, born in "electron economy" incubator Montauk Climate, emerges from stealth today with $5 million led by Giant Ventures.

It's modular, off-grid "power foundry" concept integrates gas power, battery storage, and cooling with computing infrastructure.

It's "systematic, repeatable, and becomes a manufacturing process, not a stick-built process," GridFree AI co-founder and executive chairman Ralph Alexander said.

It converts gas into electricity and cooling with 90% efficiency and ensures more power is used for the actual data center IT and processing units, which means much lower CO2, it said."

The efficiency of the overall solution enables a 50% increase in available power for IT loads," the announcement states.

This is a good idea. It utilizes an older concept called cogeneration, which has been widely employed in municipalities and on private campuses. This structure's capital and operating costs are significantly lower. Owners bypass onerous ISO, transmission, distribution, and utility charges. Their presence has no impact on LMPS (local wholesale power prices). Additionally, owners capture the turbine's waste heat and convert it into cooling, which data centers require.

With minimal barriers to entry, expect more data centers to capitalize on these opportunities, particularly near fuel sources (e.g., Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and Texas).


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