Scale has announced the acquisition of Reload, a platform that sites, designs, and permits gigawatt-scale data center campuses paired with rapidly deployable on-site power infrastructure. Scale says the deal expands its data center business by adding Reload’s powered land-development work, grid-scale energy capabilities, and a pipeline of data center campuses intended to provide “timely, reliable power at scale.”
Scale reports that the acquisition follows recent milestones, including a contract to provide a multi-hundred megawatt on-site energy system for a “leading hyperscale customer.” Scale says this positions it as “one of the very few companies actively building an on-site energy system to power an off-grid data center,” and it adds that, with backing from its equity partner EQT, it is looking to deploy multi-gigawatts of power-generation capacity for its customer base.
Reload says its work includes securing site control in key growth regions and ensuring access to fiber, water, natural gas supply, and renewable energy generation resources. Reload also reports working with local utilities to optimize interconnection and electricity rates, alongside siting, design, and permitting for “gigawatt-scale datacenter campuses” paired with “rapidly deployable powerparks.”
Scale says its portfolio includes hundreds of operating and in-build energy projects serving large commercial, industrial, and data center customers. It adds that its data center team is focused on delivering gigawatts of energy centers over the coming years for hyperscalers and data center operators, targeting “multi-year delays often associated with utility interconnection.”
On financing and ownership support, Scale says it is backed by EQT, which it describes as providing access to capital to support the development, ownership, and operation of gigawatts of on-site energy assets for commercial and industrial customers and data center customers. Scale also notes it is part of EQT’s portfolio of power, fiber, and data center development companies.
Source: Scale
