PowerBank and Nodiac Forge Alliance to Co-locate Modular Data Centers at Renewable Energy Sites
April 9, 2026
A landmark partnership between a renewable energy developer and a modular data center firm aims to address the dual pressures of surging AI-driven power demand and the need for sustainable infrastructure. Canadian renewable energy developer PowerBank Corporation has entered into a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) with U.S.-based Nodiac Corp to explore deploying modular data center infrastructure across PowerBank's portfolio of solar and battery energy storage system (BESS) sites in North America.
The collaboration seeks to leverage existing energy assets that already possess critical grid connections, land, and permits. This model is positioned to significantly accelerate deployment timelines compared to traditional ground-up data center construction, while simultaneously creating new revenue streams from underutilized infrastructure. Each potential deployment will be evaluated individually, with final agreements contingent on technical and commercial feasibility studies.
Dr. Richard Lu, CEO of PowerBank Corporation, emphasized the strategic imperative behind the move: "The accelerating demand for AI compute infrastructure represents a defining opportunity for renewable energy developers — and an urgent challenge for the planet. Our planned transaction with Nodiac reflects our conviction that the digital economy must be built on a clean energy foundation." He added that the initiative aims to provide speed-to-power for the AI industry while ensuring future economic infrastructure is "sustainable, distributed, and resilient."
Robert Sher, CEO of Nodiac, highlighted the operational synergy, noting, "PowerBank has built an impressive portfolio of renewable energy assets across North America, and we see tremendous potential to unlock new value from that infrastructure." He described the co-location model as the distributed future toward which the market is moving. The scale of the potential partnership is underscored by the companies' respective pipelines. Nodiac, a Denver-headquartered developer of containerized data centers ranging from 1MW to 15MW, reports an 800MW deployment pipeline with over 500 identified sites. PowerBank claims a development pipeline exceeding 1 gigawatt (GW), with more than 100 megawatts (MW) of operational solar and battery capacity already in place.
This initiative signals a growing trend in the industry to tightly integrate data processing capacity with generation and storage, mitigating grid constraints and aligning the exponential growth of computing with decarbonization goals. If successfully implemented, it could provide a blueprint for rapidly scalable, clean-powered digital infrastructure.
Source: datacenterdynamics
PowerBank and Nodiac Forge Alliance to Co-locate Modular Data Centers at Renewable Energy Sites
