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Capital & financing

Capital Structuring.

A build at this scale is project-financed: debt raised against contracted revenue rather than against your company. We arrange that raise, from the lenders to the tranche structure to the terms the offtake has to carry.

OFFTAKE-BACKED · PROJECT-FINANCEABLE
What this layer is

A neocloud is built on project finance.

The full build runs into the billions: chips, fabric, retrofit, redundancy, the power buildout. Capital at that scale exists, and it is priced almost entirely on one question: how certain is the revenue.

A signed offtake is what answers it. Once a creditworthy tenant has committed to multi-year payments, that contract becomes collateral: you raise debt against the contracted cash flows rather than against your company, and your own equity funds only a fraction of the build.

What a bankable contract unlocks

The capital follows the contract.

$10B+
committed to turn a single powered shell into a live, gas-powered AI campus, once it had a plan and a path to contracted revenue.
3 tranches
senior debt, mezzanine, equity: the layers a signed offtake lets you stack.
1.2–1.4×
the debt-service coverage a project lender typically requires, the test your offtake has to clear.
From contract to closed financing

What a signed contract still needs.

A signed tenant does not by itself put money in the ground. The structuring between contract and drawn debt is what sets your cost of capital.

01

A stack of tranches

Few lenders fund a build of this size alone. Senior debt takes the safest slice against contracted revenue; mezzanine and equity carry the rest at higher cost. Who sits where, and in what order, sets your blended cost of capital.

02

Non-recourse structure

The goal is project debt secured by the site and its offtake rather than by your other assets. A non-recourse structure lets you finance the next site while the first is still being built.

03

Coverage a lender will underwrite

Debt is sized so contracted revenue covers debt service with room to spare. That means proving the offtake's term, its counterparty credit and its escalators line up with the tenor of the debt.

04

Priced before the tenant signs

The cheapest capital is arranged in parallel with the offtake. Lenders shown firm power and a near-final contract at the same time price a lower risk.

Why it is hard to assemble alone

This capital does not take cold calls.

Lenders you have never met

Project-finance desks and private-credit funds price deals like this daily. Access to the ones who fund brownfield compute is built on relationships and track record.

The offtake gets read line by line

A lender underwrites your tenant's credit, the contract's term, its escalators and its termination rights. Gaps in any of these reprice the debt or end the process.

The stack has to hold together

Senior, mezzanine and equity each want different security, tenor and return, and each negotiation constrains the other two. Sequenced badly, the whole raise stalls.

What we bring

A capital stack that actually closes.

  • The introductions that matter: placement agents and project-finance lenders who actually fund brownfield compute, reached warm rather than cold.
  • An offtake shaped to be financed: term, counterparty credit and escalators aligned with the tenor of the debt.
  • A stack sequenced for the lowest blended cost: senior, mezzanine and equity sized and ordered against your contracted cash flows.
  • Credit enhancement as its own workstream: tenant-funded capex, payment backstops and equity support, negotiated into the deal when your covenant alone will not carry the debt.
  • Non-recourse structuring where it is achievable, so the site carries its own debt and your balance sheet stays free for the next one.
STRUCTURED · SIZED · BANKABLE
Who we bring to this layer

The names that price the risk.

Project debt, private credit and placement are partner work. We bring them in on the right terms, in the right order.

Anyone can pledge to spend billions. A signed offtake is what turns the pledge into drawn capital.

What will your offtake actually finance?

Tell us the site and the tenant you are working toward. We'll come back with an honest first read on the capital stack.

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