Zeo Energy and Ewyze Partner to Develop Off-Grid Power Solutions for US Data Centers

US clean energy company Zeo Energy Corp has entered into a partnership with US microgrid developer Ewyze to develop integrated off-grid power and data center infrastructure across the United States, as the rapid buildout of AI-driven computing capacity continues to strain the nation's electricity grid.

The collaboration is designed to accelerate the deployment of Ewyze's integrated power delivery model for data centers. That approach pairs solar generation and battery storage with a dispatchable power source — which may be a grid connection, natural gas, or geothermal — to build dedicated microgrids alongside data center campuses. By generating power on-site rather than relying solely on utility interconnections, the model aims to bypass the lengthy queues that have become a critical bottleneck for data center developers across the US.

According to the two companies, the integrated approach can reduce the time needed to bring data center capacity online to roughly two to three years from project initiation, subject to market, land, permitting, financing, and technical conditions. That compares with grid interconnection queues that can stretch five to ten years in parts of the country, a timeline that has increasingly frustrated hyperscalers and colocation operators racing to keep pace with demand.

Under the terms of the agreement, Zeo and Ewyze will work together across the full project lifecycle, including site identification and land acquisition, permitting, engineering and construction, financing, and commercialization with data center operators and hyperscale customers. The partnership is also eyeing international expansion opportunities beyond the US market.

Timothy Bridgewater, CEO of Zeo Energy, described the partnership as a strategic milestone for the company. "Entering into this cooperation with Ewyze represents an important and strategic step in Zeo's evolution toward larger-scale renewable energy and power infrastructure opportunities," he said. "We believe Ewyze's integrated model, combining off-grid microgrids with data-center development, positions the partnership to address one of the most significant infrastructure bottlenecks of our time. We look forward to developing these opportunities together."

Svante Kumlin, CEO of Ewyze, framed the challenge in broader terms. "The artificial intelligence revolution is fundamentally a power challenge," he said. "AI workloads demand vast amounts of reliable, cost-effective energy, and the existing grid simply cannot deliver it at the speed or scale the market requires. Ewyze was built to solve exactly that problem, by developing the full infrastructure stack from the ground up, integrating renewable generation, battery storage, and data-center assets into a single, coherent platform."

Zeo Energy operates Sunergy, a residential solar and distributed energy business, as well as Heliogen, a long-duration energy generation and storage business targeting data centers and other energy-intensive industries. The company has previously signed renewable energy supply agreements with data center operators. In February, Zeo inked a Memorandum of Understanding with AI data center company Creekstone Energy to develop 280MW of solar and storage capacity for Creekstone's data center campus in Millard County, Utah.

The partnership reflects a growing industry trend in which data center developers and power providers are increasingly turning to behind-the-meter and off-grid solutions to secure reliable electricity supplies amid soaring demand from AI workloads. As utilities struggle to keep up with interconnection requests, integrated microgrid models that combine renewable generation with dispatchable backup power are emerging as a viable pathway to bring capacity online faster and reduce exposure to grid constraints.