The best
interconnection queue
is no queue at all.
AnchorPower Energy delivers and orchestrates firm capacity to AI data-center compute facilities in 18 months — not 7 years.
We don’t just power data centers — we make them welcome. Off-grid by design, so the campuses we power get built, not blocked.
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We deliver contracted, co-located firm power that bypasses the grid entirely.
Fastest time-to-power
Behind-the-meter power eliminates grid interconnection entirely. No queue. No interconnection study. No utility delays. First power in 18 months — versus 5–7+ years on the grid queue.
An 800V DC backbone
AnchorPower distributes power natively at 800V DC — the architecture NVIDIA, Google and the OCP ecosystem are standardizing on for AI racks. Generating and carrying DC end-to-end removes the inverter→transformer→rectifier round-trips grid-coupled AC plants can’t avoid — recovering roughly 6–7 points of conversion loss (~11–12% → ~5%, modeled per stage), cutting copper and conversion stages, and aligning with the 800V DC input of next-generation GPU racks. Targeting a PUE below 1.1.
Zero fuel. Zero stranding.
No gas risk. No fuel-cost escalation. No pipeline risk. Long term PPAs lock in revenue for 15 years. The customer takes demand risk; we take weather risk. The power we deliver is clean and aligned with your ESG targets — zero-emission generation, contracted and verifiable.
Modular & pre-fabricated
Modular, containerized deployment lowers labour constraints and enables rapid build — cutting design, permitting, and construction time. Most of the system arrives pre-fabricated, and the same modules scale by replication — from a single campus to a 500 MW+ AI factory.
A good neighbor by design
The fastest way to stall a data center now is local opposition — and it is almost always the same concerns: residents’ power bills, water, transmission lines, noise. AnchorFirm draws zero power from the grid, so it cannot raise local electricity rates. No new transmission corridors. Closed-loop water. Low-profile, on-site generation — plus local tax base and jobs. We don’t just permit faster; we’re built to be welcomed.
One modular architecture — any scale.
The same platform powers a 50–100 MW campus or, replicated, a 500 MW+ AI factory — up to gigawatt-class mega-sites. One architecture, scaled to the site.
Can your AI roadmap afford a 7-year wait?
- PJM / ERCOT / SPP queue · interconnection studies
- Merchant price risk + fuel-cost escalation
- 300+ GW gas in development — only 5–8 GW contracted
- Co-located · private PPA · zero queue risk
- 15-year fixed-price, contracted PPA · zero fuel cost
- Zero stranding risk · cost curve continues falling
Gas isn't the answer. It's the next stranded-asset bubble.
The U.S. now leads the world for gas-power development — over 1,000 GW planned. But under the surface, only 5–8 GW is contracted to a creditworthy off-taker. The rest is speculative, dependent on AI demand holding and turbine makers delivering on time.
One flagship. Two configurations. Every site has a path.
AnchorFirm is the primary product — the fully off-grid configuration. AnchorFlex and AnchorBridge adapt to sites whose load profile or timeline needs a different shape.
AnchorFirm
The fully off-grid configuration. On-site solar PV, BESS and firming — a dispatchable firm-generation layer matched to each site — with optional backup deliver firm, contracted power to a distributed 50–100 MW AI data-center site under a 15-year PPA — and the modular platform replicates to 500 MW+ and gigawatt-scale. No grid interconnection. Modular and containerized — first power in 18–20 months.
AnchorFlex
The same co-located generation stack with an optional utility tie — for flexible loads, seasonal balancing, or regions where a grid connection is available but non-critical.
AnchorBridge
Bridging power for operators who cannot wait out the queue. Modular behind-the-meter generation and storage covers the gap between construction complete and permanent energization.
AnchorPower doesn’t just deliver firm power — it monetizes the spread between abundant and scarce energy. By orchestrating GPU workloads against real-time on-site power economics, ACE turns cheap-power windows and idle capacity into billable compute. It runs the fleet in merit order, concentrates deferrable work where energy is cheapest, and reserves firm capacity for contracted loads — driving down $/GPU-hour and compounding utilization across a multi-site fleet.
Setting a new standard for contracted infrastructure.
Core architecture
We build what the system requires — long-term reliability and redundancy, efficiency (DC power for DC systems), 800V DC distribution, closed-loop water, and modular pre-fabricated systems. AnchorPower is the on-site generation layer — Block 1 of the emerging modular DC data-center stack defined by Tier-1 OEMs.
Parallel-path development
From modular power to containerized deployment, our systems are engineered and procured simultaneously with permitting and landowner negotiations — compressing the traditional 3–5 year pipeline to 12–14 months pre-construction.
Zero fuel — zero stranding risk
First power in 18–20 months under a long-term, fixed-price PPA — typically structured as take-or-pay, tailored to each customer’s risk profile. AnchorPower operates the asset and absorbs weather and production risk. No utility dependency, no FERC study, no interconnection queue — ever.
Adjacency-first siting
We can build in any U.S. state. We design custom power-delivery architectures matched to each customer's load profile and reliability requirements. Active proof-of-concept siting across Texas, Arizona, and Alberta.
Understand the landscape.
Short, technical explainers from the AnchorPower team on how distributed compute gets powered.
Where AI compute is going — and how it gets powered.
AI compute is splitting into distributed metro sites and centralized gigawatt campuses — different shapes, one shared constraint: firm power, without the queue.
Read the explainer → Insight · No. 02The rulebook is turning toward on-site power.
Federal regulators now direct every U.S. grid operator to make room for co-location and behind-the-meter generation — and to curb cost-shifting onto other customers. What it means for how AI campuses get powered.
Read the analysis → Insight · No. 03Why data centers get rejected — and how on-site power gets welcomed.
$130B+ of builds were blocked in 2026 over power bills, water and transmission lines. Off-grid, behind-the-meter siting removes the objections at the source — a structural siting advantage, not a press release.
Read the analysis → Insight · No. 04The rack is going 800V DC. The power source should too.
AI racks are being rebuilt around an 800V DC backbone — cutting copper ~45% and conversion stages. A source that is born DC delivers power the way the rack now wants it. Why native 800V DC is the advantage.
Read the analysis →The window is open today.
Data-center AI capex in 2026 alone (Goldman Sachs). Power is the single largest unresolved constraint.
Gas in development; only 5–8 GW contracted. 60–75% stranded-asset probability by 2028–32 if AI demand softens.
PPA premium operators will pay for speed and firmness — 18-month delivery vs. a 7-year grid queue.
When operators finalize their 2027–28+ power strategies. The time to be at the table is now.
Eight signals. One direction.
Built by professionals with industry background and expertise.
Ayaz Khokhar
Power and infrastructure executive and entrepreneur focused on energy development, construction, financing, and operations. Previously founded Source3 Energy and Source3 Energy X — GW-scale renewable and hydrogen development platforms — and GridWise AI, an AI-powered grid intelligence platform. B.S. Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo; MBA, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
Imtiyaz Pirmohamed
Renewable energy infrastructure professional with 20+ years across utility-scale solar, microgrids, BESS, firming, LDES, hydrogen and telecommunications — developing grid-connected and independent power projects globally and at Source3 Energy. B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Central Florida; MBA, University of Groningen. Professional Engineer, Ontario, Canada.
Fahad Ahmad
Peter Schimmann
- Former product line owner, Tesla MegaPack
- Former renewable infrastructure project finance executive, BP / Brookfield
- Former C-suite executive, ATCO Renewables
- Former Director, Storage, ATCO Renewables
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