8,500 acre site will integrate advanced power and storage solutions
US energy infrastructure developer Zenith Volts has obtained approval for a data center project in Roswell, New Mexico.
The company was granted approval from the Chaves County Commission for a 300-acre data center project designed to support 1.24GW or more of power capacity. The plot has expandable land resources and will focus on delivering reliable infrastructure for AI, cloud computing, and high-performance workloads.
The entire site will span 8,500 acres and integrate advanced power solutions, including on-site solar, natural gas generators for backup, modular solar-thermal hybrid systems, a 250-acre battery energy storage system, and geothermal cooling. The exact capacity of each power solution has not been disclosed.
The company has said that the project will be fully operational by November 2027. It is currently in the process of engaging with technology companies, cloud service providers, and AI innovators to join as anchor partners.
While not explicitly stated, it seems like the project will be powered off-grid via a diversified set of power and storage solutions.
Headquartered in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Zenith styles itself as a power solutions and data center development company. The Rosewell announcement is its first in the data center sector, with the company only being founded earlier this year.
It is unclear who owns Zenith. Debt provider Equitas Global Financial Guarantee Ltd is listed as providing funding to the company.
The project follows a trend of new companies seeking to develop off-grid solutions for the data center sector. Last week, Pacifico Energy revealed plans for an 8,000-acre+, 5GW off-grid power project purpose-built to support hyperscale data center operators and artificial intelligence applications.
