US clean energy company Zeo Energy Corp has partnered with US microgrid developer Ewyze to develop integrated off-grid power and data center infrastructure across the US.

The partnership will see the companies support a wider deployment of Ewyze's integrated approach to power delivery for data centers. Ewyze’s model 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.

According to the companies, the model can cut the time needed to bring data center capacity online to roughly two to three years from project initiation, where market, land, permitting, financing, and technical conditions allow, compared to grid interconnection queues that can stretch five to ten years in parts of the US.

Under the terms of the agreement, Zeo and Ewyze will work together on site identification and land acquisition, permitting, engineering and construction, financing, and commercialization with data center operators and hyperscale customers.

“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,” said Timothy Bridgewater, CEO of Zeo Energy.

“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.”

“The artificial intelligence revolution is fundamentally a power challenge,” added Svante Kumlin, CEO of Ewyze. “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 also operates Sunergy, a residential solar and distributed energy business, and Heliogen, a long-duration energy generation and storage business aimed at data centers and other energy-intensive industries.

It has previously signed renewable energy supply deals with data centers. In February, the firm inked an MoU 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.