What Cloverleaf Infrastructure does

Cloverleaf Infrastructure is a privately held, Houston- and Seattle-based powered-land development company founded in 2024 by David Berry (CEO, ex-Clean Line Energy and ConnectGen), Brian Janous (CCO, former VP of Energy at Microsoft), and Jonathan Abebe (CTO, former DOE and Pattern Energy). The company develops clean-powered, shovel-ready data center sites by packaging land acquisition, grid interconnection, permitting, utility coordination, and energy infrastructure development into a single development service. Its technology stack centers on proprietary load flow analysis run in parallel with siting, grid enhancing technologies assessment, zero-water cooling design, and dispatchable resource and storage integration to deliver multi-hundred MW to GW-scale powered sites. The company serves two primary customer segments: utilities seeking to grow rate base with de-risked large-load customers, and hyperscalers / tech companies requiring gigawatt-scale powered land faster than transmission build-out alone would permit.

Cloverleaf operates an enterprise field-sales go-to-market, pursuing direct relationships with utilities, hyperscale data center operators, landowners, and government officials rather than selling through channels. The revenue model is project-based, earning development fees for site preparation, utility coordination, permitting, and interconnection management, with the possibility of equity participation in completed sites. Pricing is custom and quote-based per project, with multi-year contract cadences aligned to development timelines. Named customer and partner relationships include We Energies, Vantage Data Centers, Google, Oracle, and OpenAI (the latter two as tenants of the Stargate/Port Washington Lighthouse campus).

The company's project pipeline spans Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Kansas, Michigan, and Georgia, with flagship Project Red Granite targeting up to 3.5 GW of power delivery by 2030 on up to 1,900 acres. Cloverleaf raised $300 million in equal commitments from NGP and Sandbrook Capital in July 2024 and has since expanded into adjacent capacity-flexibility services via partnerships with Voltus (BYOC program) and Octopus Energy (residential DER aggregation), positioning itself as an intermediary platform between utility providers, hyperscalers, and the distributed energy ecosystem.

Name

Cloverleaf Infrastructure

Legal name

Cloverleaf Development LLC

Website

https://cloverleafinfra.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cloverleaf Infrastructure develops clean-powered, shovel-ready data center sites by packaging land, grid interconnection, and energy infrastructure for hyperscalers and utilities. The Houston- and Seattle-based company, founded in 2024, operates an intermediary model serving tech companies, AI firms, and utility partners across multiple US states.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Powered Land Development for Data Centers

NAICS

Land Subdivision (23721), Land Subdivision (2372)

SIC

Land Subdividers & Developers (No Cemeteries) (6552), Water, Sewer, Pipeline, Comm & Power Line Construction (1623)

akta.pro primary industry

Data Center Site Development & Permitting (Land, Zoning, Utilities) (HDABACAM)

Keywords

• Powered land development
• Data center site development
• Clean energy infrastructure
• Grid interconnection services
• Utility project development

Headquarters

HQ city

Houston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Site Development and Development Fees: Cloverleaf develops construction-ready, powered sites for data center operators and earns development fees for site preparation, utility coordination, permitting, interconnection management, and project delivery. Revenue derived from project development services and potentially equity participation in completed sites.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Cloverleaf Infrastructure develops clean-powered, ready-to-build sites for hyperscale data center operators by sourcing land, securing power capacity and grid interconnections, coordinating with utilities, and managing permitting and development through delivery of shovel-ready powered parcels. The company packages land and electricity for tech giants and AI infrastructure developers, operating as an intermediary between utility providers and data center operators across multiple U.S. markets.

Product overview

Cloverleaf Infrastructure is a powered-land development company that creates gigawatt-scale, construction-ready data center sites. Rather than a software platform, the company's core offering is site development services that combine land acquisition, power infrastructure development, grid interconnection management, and utility collaboration to deliver 'shovel-ready' locations for data center operators. The company focuses on renewable energy integration (wind, solar, storage) and works with utilities, landowners, government officials, and tech companies/investors as stakeholders in each project.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Powered Land Development Services End-to-end powered-land development service for hyperscale data center operators. Cloverleaf identifies, assembles, permits, and delivers construction-ready sites with secured power infrastructure and grid interconnections, acting as an intermediary between utility providers and tech companies across multiple U.S. markets.

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 3.5 GW power delivery capacity by 2030 for single project site
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, supporting and core.

• VoltusflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 June 2026Partnership to launch 'bring-your-own-capacity' (BYOC) program designed to bridge the capacity gap for data centers until the early 2030s. Voltus VPPs expected online in 2027. Google became the first named customer of this BYOC program.
• GoogleflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 June 2026First named customer of Voltus's 'bring your own capacity' (BYOC) program launched in partnership with Cloverleaf Infrastructure. Google committed to finance a 100 megawatt virtual power plant in the PJM region to support its data center buildout. Described as the first instance of a hyperscaler directly funding a VPP.
• Octopus EnergysupportingTechnology or Integration · 3 February 2026Partnership between Voltus and Octopus Energy to aggregate residential flexibility across major US power markets. Octopus supplies Voltus with aggregations of smart thermostats, electric vehicles, and home batteries. Cloverleaf is involved through its Voltus BYOC partnership.
• We EnergiescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWisconsin utility company collaborating with Cloverleaf on data center development projects. Together with Vantage Data Centers, petitioned Wisconsin state regulators to loosen financial backing requirements for large data center customers including Oracle's $15 billion Lighthouse campus in Port Washington.
• Vantage Data CenterscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerData center operator partnered with Cloverleaf on Wisconsin projects including Port Washington development. Also collaborating on $8 billion project that received approval in Port Washington, with Oracle and OpenAI as tenants for the Stargate initiative.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• QTS Realty Trust: Now part of Blackstone/GI Partners, large-scale hyperscale and enterprise data center operator with extensive powered-land portfolio. Comparable end-customer focus but operates at much larger scale and as a vertically integrated operator rather than pure developer.

Direct peers

• Compass Datacenters: Hyperscale-focused data center developer with modular construction approach and strong utility partnership model. Directly comparable GTM motion: package land, power, and permitting for enterprise and hyperscale customers across multiple US markets.
• Vantage Data Centers: Hyperscale data center operator that is also an active co-development partner with Cloverleaf on Wisconsin projects (Port Washington, Lighthouse campus). Comparable in targeting GW-scale powered campuses for hyperscaler tenants including Oracle.
• EdgeConneX: Global data center provider specializing in build-to-suit and powered-shell solutions for hyperscalers, cloud, and AI workloads. Comparable customer profile (hyperscalers, large enterprises) and similar focus on land+power packaging in Tier 2 markets.
• Aligned Energy: Data center developer with proprietary liquid cooling and adaptive infrastructure, serving hyperscalers and large enterprises. Comparable in selling powered, ready-to-build capacity to AI/cloud customers, with similar emphasis on speed-to-market and cooling innovation.
• T5 Data Centers: Custom and hyperscale data center developer with multi-MW to multi-hundred-MW campus builds. Comparable in offering powered-land and build-to-suit solutions for enterprise and hyperscale customers.
• Stack Infrastructure: Specialized powered-shell and build-to-suit data center developer working with hyperscalers on multi-hundred-MW campuses. Comparable in that both deliver shovel-ready, utility-served sites to the same hyperscaler customer base, though Stack is more established and has deeper capital.

Emerging players

• ConnectGen: Renewable energy developer with 20,000+ MW portfolio, co-founded by David Berry and later sold to Repsol. Comparable in early-stage renewable infrastructure development pedigree and scale ambitions, though not focused on data center sites specifically.
• Clean Line Energy Partners: Transmission and renewable energy developer co-founded by CEO David Berry (Western Spirit, Grain Belt Express). Comparable in the power infrastructure development business model, though focused on long-haul transmission rather than data center site development.
• Crusoe Energy Systems: Data center and AI infrastructure operator that builds powered capacity for compute workloads, including flared-gas and modular AI data centers. Comparable in addressing the power-for-compute bottleneck for AI customers, though primarily an operator rather than a powered-land developer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles22 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors3 records

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M&A

Investments

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