Nº 04Phased Build

From 400 MW to 2 GW — in three deliberate stages.

Each stage compounds what the last one earned: land posture, grid access, water rights, and community trust.

Phase · 01 · 2026 – 2029

First Hyperscale Foundation

400 MW AI data centre, 240 kV substation, LFP battery storage, thermal-management reservoir. Round 1 first close targeted for mid-2026. First power 2027. Full Phase 1 operational within a few years.

400 MW
AI capacity
1,600 MWh
LFP BESS (500 MW scenario)
~300–334 MW
Net DTS draw · 600 MW avail.

What we need to build it

  • • 240 kV substation + interconnection engineering
  • • Short-term energy mix target: ~80% renewables & storage, ~20% natural gas for demand peaks and baseload firming
  • • 100 MW Capstone C1000S microturbine plant (100 units, 500 air-bearing microturbines in parallel) + 1,600 MWh LFP lithium battery storage in the modelled stack
  • • Starter hydrogen stack (electrolyzer + fuel cell pilot) sized to capture curtailed wind/solar and carry the site through cold snaps
  • • Hybrid direct liquid cooling at 0.5 L/kWh and thermal-management reservoir on site
  • • Phase 1 permitting, rezoning, fire access, legal, and investor-grade materials
Phase · 02 · 2029 – 2032

AI Corridor Expansion

Scale to 1 GW. Pumped hydro built off BRID reservoir capacity. Expanded BESS and multi-tenant data-centre campuses. Solar projects designed to unlock agrivoltaics potential so farmland stays productive under panels.

1 GW
Campus scale
~4.4B L/yr
Water consumption at full 1 GW
Agrivoltaics
Solar design that keeps land productive

What we need to build it

  • • Pumped hydro facility against BRID reservoir elevation
  • • Scaled hydrogen production and storage for true seasonal balancing — electrolyzers absorbing summer curtailment, fuel cells discharging in winter
  • • Expanded BESS and grid-forming inverter fleet
  • • Natural-gas share trending down as pumped hydro and hydrogen take over more of the firming role
  • • Second and third tenant campuses on rezoned adjacent parcels
  • • Agrivoltaic build-outs that unlock dual land use under panels
Phase · 03 · 2032 – 2034+

Full Regional Clean Grid

A 2 GW integrated AI + clean-energy ecosystem. 1–1.5 GW of long-duration storage. 1.5 GW of interconnected transmission. 4–5 GW of solar and wind across the corridor.

2 GW
Corridor total
1–1.5 GW
Long-duration storage
4–5 GW
Regional solar + wind

What we need to build it

  • • 1.5 GW of regional transmission build-out alongside AltaLink / AESO
  • • Long-duration storage mix — extended BESS, pumped hydro, and a mature hydrogen layer doing the seasonal heavy lifting
  • • 4–5 GW of new generation across the corridor
  • • Multi-tenant hyperscale AI cluster integrated with ancillary-services revenue