Generation first. Compute follows.

We start with the resource, not the real estate. A site needs generation strong enough and steady enough to carry a flat load for a decent share of the year. We assess wind and solar together against long term reanalysis data, then measure on site once a site is shortlisted. Some sites carry both. Some carry one, and the storage does more work.

A data centre is a flat load and renewable generation is not, so storage is what makes the match possible. We size the battery against the modelled load rather than the nameplate generation, and we state the residual, being the share of hours the site still draws from the grid, rather than claiming a site is fully self supplied.

A data centre has to be a good neighbour on water as well as power. We design for closed loop liquid cooling with dry heat rejection, so the cooling evaporates nothing, and we harvest rain from the roofs into tanks. We run the site's full daily rainfall record through the roofs and tanks to show supply holds through every drought on record. We take no water licence, no bore and nothing from a river, a dam or groundwater, and we put that commitment in writing with the landholder and the community. Construction water is recycled where we can, and town water serves staff drinking needs only.

Behind the meter generation still needs a grid connection for firming, for export and for the hours storage cannot cover. We talk to the network operator early, look for country with existing or underused capacity, and treat the connection agreement as a gate, not a late formality.

Only then the data centre. With the power committed, we take the site to shovel ready: planning approval, water and cooling strategy, civil design, and the fibre. We find the route, confirm the carriers and the capacity available on it, and secure the easements, because a powered site with no path to fibre is not a data centre site. It is then offered to the operators and capital that build it. We develop and consent the site, the generation and the campus, and hand over the vehicle that owns them. We are not an operator.