For AI Data Center Operators
LurraGrid is developing firm behind-the-meter power and thermal infrastructure for AI compute facilities, designed to align energy deployment with data center construction timelines while reducing exposure to grid queues, energy market volatility, and cooling inefficiency.
LurraGrid converts renewable surplus into firm behind-the-meter power and thermal infrastructure for advanced compute.
The Market Reality
AI compute demand is growing faster than any grid was built to serve. Interconnection queues stretch five to seven years. Traditional generation remains essential, but the market increasingly needs complementary infrastructure layers that can improve power availability, storage, dispatch, and cooling performance.
At the same time, renewable energy is producing more surplus power than the grid can absorb — during overnight, midday, and off-peak windows when renewable output can exceed demand.
LurraGrid sits at the intersection of both realities. We absorb renewable surplus when the grid cannot use it, store it underground in converted hard rock mine infrastructure, and dispatch firm behind-the-meter power when your compute load demands it most.
We do not compete with the grid or with traditional generation. We help bridge the gap traditional infrastructure cannot close on the compute deployment timeline.
The Development Gap
18
Months
Data center construction schedules increasingly move faster than utility interconnection timelines. LurraGrid is designed to close that timing gap by advancing LurraNodes through site control, engineering, power market structuring, EPC packaging, and LurraPDA development before the offtaker needs power online.
The goal is not to wait for a utility queue to define the project timeline. The goal is to prepare mine-based energy infrastructure so power deployment can align more closely with compute deployment.
70
MW
Initial Firm Delivery Target
16hr
Daily
Continuous Dispatch Window
20
Years
Take-or-Pay LurraPDA Term
50
Years
Infrastructure Asset Life
The Power Profile
Designed to convert intermittent surplus into firm scheduled delivery, directly behind the meter. Larger campus opportunities may be evaluated through multiple LurraNodes or expanded site-specific configurations.
LurraCore dispatches during peak demand hours and recharges during low-value overnight windows through LurraCharge — a negotiated renewable surplus acquisition strategy designed to keep input costs structurally low.
LurraBridge provides battery-backed load stabilization, supporting grid interconnection requirements and protecting your load from transition interruptions.
Infrastructure-grade contract duration. Price certainty from day one through year twenty. Designed to support project-level financing once site control, engineering, offtake, permitting pathway, and transaction documents are in place.
Conventional Data Center
1.25
PUE — Power Usage Effectiveness
20–25% of delivered power consumed by cooling and mechanical overhead
LurraTherm Target
~8 MW
redirected from cooling
back to compute
LurraTherm Design Target
1.10
PUE — Improved Efficiency
More of the same power envelope supports productive compute rather than mechanical cooling
Beyond Power
AI compute is a thermal problem as much as a power problem. GPU-dense racks generate extraordinary heat loads. Conventional air cooling consumes a significant portion of your delivered power managing temperature — power that never reaches your compute.
Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling
Captures heat at the GPU level — where it is generated, before it becomes a facility-wide thermal problem. A controlled liquid loop manages heat at the server level with precision that air cooling cannot match.
Underground Thermal Exchange
Transfers captured heat into a controlled heat exchange system using the mine's underground thermal environment — stable subsurface temperatures and mine-water thermal mass. Not mine water running through your servers. A clean, engineered exchange architecture between facility and subsurface loops.
Waste Heat as Community Asset
LurraGrid is designing pathways to redirect waste heat toward beneficial community uses — district heating, greenhouses, municipal buildings, industrial process heat. LurraTherm turns data center waste heat from a liability into a local infrastructure asset.
The Efficiency Gain
In a conventional facility, cooling and mechanical overhead can consume 20–25% of delivered power. LurraTherm is designed to reduce that burden. At a 70MW facility, improving PUE from approximately 1.25 to approximately 1.10 can reduce facility overhead by roughly 8MW.
That means more of the same power envelope can support productive compute rather than mechanical cooling.
LurraTherm is part of the LurraGrid infrastructure roadmap, developed in parallel with each LurraNode's site-specific feasibility work. We present it not as a guarantee but as a designed advantage — one that makes a LurraNode a fundamentally more efficient and community-compatible compute infrastructure platform.
Why Behind the Meter
Grid Interconnection Exposure
Power development on your timeline, not the utility's
Transmission Costs
You pay for generation, not delivery
Energy Market Volatility
Rate structured for the full contract term — reduced exposure depending on final energy stack
Cooling Overhead
More delivered power can support compute instead of mechanical load
Permitting Uncertainty
Existing industrial infrastructure, not greenfield construction — designed around renewable-powered recharge and non-combustion dispatch, compatible with ESG-aligned capital and operator requirements
Renewable surplus is not a problem for LurraGrid. It is the recharge source.
Renewable surplus is not a problem for LurraGrid.
It is the recharge source.
Six Layers. One Platform.
LurraGrid is not only a power source. It is an integrated infrastructure platform designed around the specific demands of AI compute.
Recharge Layer
Acquires low-value renewable surplus during recharge windows through negotiated power purchase agreements. Renewable surplus is not a problem for LurraGrid. It is the recharge source.
Storage & Dispatch
Stores energy as potential hydraulic head in underground hard rock mine reservoirs. Dispatches firm power through turbines during peak compute hours.
Patent Pending
Dual-reservoir threshold switching designed to support continuity across reservoir cycles. Prior art published through Zenodo in May 2026. USPTO provisional filing in process.
Stabilization Layer
Battery bridge layer provides fast-response load stabilization for grid interconnection requirements and transition management.
Thermal Infrastructure
Underground thermal exchange architecture designed to reduce cooling burden, improve power utilization efficiency, and create pathways for beneficial waste heat reuse.
20-Year Take-or-Pay
Infrastructure-grade Power Delivery Agreement. Behind-the-meter delivery. Designed to support project-level financing once site control, engineering, offtake, permitting pathway, and transaction documents are in place.
Right For You If
You are developing or expanding an AI compute or colocation facility in the 50–100MW range and need behind-the-meter power structured around your development schedule.
You are an infrastructure developer or fund evaluating multi-node campus opportunities requiring long-duration, firm, dispatchable power with thermal management integration.
You are operating in a market where grid interconnection timelines, permitting constraints, or capital requirements make conventional utility power impractical on your development schedule.
LurraGrid is also in early conversations with hyperscale operators and infrastructure partners evaluating larger campus-scale deployments across multiple LurraNodes. If that describes your interest, we want to hear from you.
We review location, load profile, timeline, power requirements, cooling needs, and development constraints to determine whether a LurraNode or LurraPDA structure may fit your project.
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