9–12 Months
Maximum Customization
Warm Shell Building
Tenant-ready building with central infrastructure fully installed and an unfinished, customizable interior. You design the data hall to your standards.
Backbone Digital · Power Assured · Speed & Certainty
EdgeNow™ delivers power-assured, high-density data center capacity for AI and HPC workloads — grid-connected, on schedule, and on budget. Built by a team that has commissioned more than a gigawatt of operating capacity.
The Capacity Gap
Hyperscale campuses take three to five years to deliver. Grid queues, transformer lead times, and constrained developer bandwidth are pushing critical AI workloads months — sometimes years — behind their target launch dates. EdgeNow closes that gap.
Deployable MW in the next 6–18 months is hard to secure in the right metros, on the right interconnects, with the right credit terms.
Large-scale campuses face long interconnect queues, permitting complexity, and multi-year construction schedules that can’t flex to AI launch timelines.
Higher density, liquid cooling, and step-change power demands mean most legacy facilities can’t support next-generation GPU deployments.
Transformers, gen-sets, switchgear, and chillers are all running 40–70+ week lead times. Without disciplined pre-procurement, schedules slip.
The few credible teams with execution track records are booked out years in advance, leaving enterprises with few real options.
The Backbone Solution
We focus on grid-connected, power-assured sites with compressed development pipelines — and pair them with standardized warm-shell, modular, or pad-ready delivery options. The result: predictable schedules, predictable costs, and capacity online when you actually need it.
We bridge the gap between “need capacity now” and “multi-year build” timelines — without the speculative risk of self-generation or behind-the-meter experiments.
Introducing EdgeNow™
EdgeNow is Backbone Digital’s repeatable delivery system for high-density AI and HPC compute. Three commercial structures, three delivery formats, three resiliency tiers — all built on the same Backbone platform standards. Procure capacity the way you buy compute, then deploy.
Pad-ready in under 6 months. Rack-ready in 9–12 months. Compressed pipelines, on grid, on time.
Power assured, not power promised. Standardized platform, disciplined pre-procurement, and a battle-tested team.
Grid-connected sites with power in hand — no speculative self-generation, no waiting on interconnect queues that never resolve.
Up to 100–240 kW racks, hybrid liquid cooling with direct-to-chip cold plate, PUE < 1.2. Engineered for next-gen GPUs.
Delivery Options
Whether you need maximum customization, plug-in speed, or pad-ready flexibility, every Backbone facility ships with the same high-density, liquid-cooling-ready, network-ready foundation.
9–12 Months
Maximum Customization
Tenant-ready building with central infrastructure fully installed and an unfinished, customizable interior. You design the data hall to your standards.
9–12 Months
Fastest Plug-In
Tenant-ready, factory-built modules with standardized power, cooling, and distribution. Plug-in ready for racking and equipment.
< 6 Months
Fastest to Start
Shell- or PMDC-ready site with utility infrastructure already in place to demarcation. Maximum flexibility for either modular or warm-shell models.
Backbone Platform Standards
Designed for up to 100–240 kW per rack to support next-generation AI accelerators and densest GPU workloads.
Direct-to-chip cold plate as primary heat capture. Facility-side rejection engineered for scalable liquid deployments.
Optimized power and cooling architecture. Predictable, measurable operating performance across every site.
Carrier-grade fiber with diverse pathways and a clear client handoff. Engineered for rapid customer turn-up.
Standardized interface specs, test plans, and turnover documentation. Clear handoff from site readiness to hardware online.
A Good Neighbor
The industry has a growing image problem. Backbone doesn’t. Every EdgeNow site is engineered from day one to be quiet, low-impact, and welcome in the community — because our platform standards demand it and because we’d want the same in our own back yard.
Zero water withdrawal. Zero blowdown. The same water recirculates through direct-to-chip liquid cooling for the life of the facility — no strain on municipal supply or local aquifers.
Grid-connected, not self-generating. No diesel-primary power, no on-site combustion, no plumes. The cleanest available source of electrons in every market we serve.
Sound-attenuated mechanical equipment, generous setbacks, and acoustic screening at the property line. Designed to meet the strictest local noise ordinances — night and day.
Low-profile buildings, native landscaping, and dark-sky-compliant lighting. Screened from adjacent roads and homes so the site all but disappears from the neighborhood streetscape.
Hundreds of construction jobs, permanent operating roles, and a significant property- and utility-tax contribution — without the school and service load of residential development.
We meet with local officials, planning boards, and neighbors before we break ground. Traffic, construction, and operating plans are shaped with the community — not sprung on it.
Backbone data centers generate a fraction of the traffic of a comparable retail, industrial, or residential development, add virtually no service load, and can be decommissioned and returned to prior use in ways that heavy industry cannot. We think of every site as a long-term neighbor — because it is.
Proven Track Record
Backbone’s executives have developed and commissioned more than a gigawatt of operating projects across the United States, spanning Tier I through Tier IV deployments at hyperscale and large-scale enterprise campuses.
Southwest
100MW
Tier IV
Confidential hyperscale, two-building campus, greenfield development.
McCamey, TX
280MW
Tier I
Large-scale, behind-the-meter deployment with a top energy firm at an existing wind farm.
Midwest
300MW
Tier IV
Confidential hyperscale, five-building campus, greenfield development.
Kearney, NE
100MW
Tier I
Large-scale, greenfield development with 100 MW grid-connected transmission upgrade.
Leadership
Decades of leadership across data centers, hyperscale construction, infrastructure finance, and energy markets — with the operating reps to back it up.
CEO & Founder
Operations
Construction
Finance
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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