We started with a simple question:
What if the "problem" of renewable overabundance isn't a problem at all?
In 2019, we pitched a small idea to use surplus energy from Hydro Tasmania to establish a renewable data centre. Standard stuff. But as we talked to the Tasmanian OCG, Hydro Tasmania and TasNetworks, the real opportunity became clear. Australia needs to be smarter using power.
Here's what we saw:
The grid of the future requires renewable over-abundance. You need surplus on sunny, windy days to cover calm, cloudy ones. That's what’s required to make renewables work. But right now, that surplus gets wasted. Generators lose revenue. On low supply occasions, grid operators scramble, and expensive firming power is required. Prices spike. Meanwhile, computing demand is exploding. And most computing doesn't care about supply issues. it just needs to run.
So we built something different.
What’s next?
We're building industrial symbiosis. That waste heat? It'll grow vegetables and flowers. Dry timber and grains. Heat treatment for manufacturing. The same energy that powers computing can revitalise regional industries.
We're proving that power generation can be a YIMBY story. When communities see greenhouses thriving, local jobs created, and electricity prices dropping, they'll want this in their backyard.
Australia has a choice:
Keep wasting billions of dollars of renewable energy. Or put it to work.
We're choosing to lead.
Building Australia's energy advantage.
Our Team
The people building this are energy veterans with years working in the grid.
Here's who we are and how we’re rethinking energy.