1,000 MegaWatt ERCOT
Case Studies / 1,000 Megawatt Opportunity
WiredRE’s references are not simply a roster of prominent organizations; they reflect a track record of large-scale redevelopment, turnaround, and monetization assignments spanning utility-scale energy infrastructure and gigawatt-scale digital infrastructure. The company has advised on, redeveloped, and repositioned complex assets for technology companies, telecommunications providers, financial institutions, investors, infrastructure owners, and energy developers—including advising on the monetization of Long Ridge Energy Terminal.
Many of these engagements began as stalled, distressed, underperforming, or infrastructure-constrained projects. The objective was not incremental improvement, but a decisive change in asset trajectory: restored viability, institutional investment, successful commercialization, step-change value creation, and strategic exit.
The West Texas case study demonstrates this capability at 1,000 MW, showing how WiredRE coordinated the technical, commercial, financial, and institutional requirements necessary to convert a challenged site into executable capacity.
Overview
Remote-Site Turnaround and Exit to a Top 3 Global Cloud Provider
WiredRE led the technical productization, development coordination, and go-to-market strategy for an infrastructure-limited West Texas site.
By aligning site control, utility certainty, delivery planning, occupier access, and institutional governance, WiredRE converted the opportunity into executable AI infrastructure capacity.
The site was exited to a top 3 global cloud provider in under 14 months, doubling exit value—the largest AI powered-land transaction in ERCOT history.
Transaction highlights
- 1,000 MW of planned capacity
- West Texas / ERCOT
- Under 14 months from engagement to exit
- 2× exit value
What made the outcome executable
- Site control
- Utility certainty
- Delivery certainty
- Occupancy path
- Institutional governance
Commercial Turnaround of Remote Pennsylvania 'Underground' Data Center
Converting an underperforming, infrastructure-constrained asset into a premium enterprise platform
A recognized infrastructure owner engaged WiredRE to reposition and commercialize a remote, underdeveloped data center that was losing revenue and market share.
The facility had limited network connectivity, no immediately available capacity, no dedicated data center sales team, and no budget or authorization for public marketing. Its build-to-suit-only model also made the site more difficult to sell than competing facilities with ready-to-occupy capacity.
WiredRE was asked to create a national client-acquisition strategy without disrupting the client’s existing sales organization, while positioning the facility to command premium pricing for large-scale enterprise opportunities.
The Challenge
At the beginning of the engagement, the asset faced several material constraints:
- Remote location and limited market visibility
- Network availability below competitive-market standards
- Declining revenue and market share
- Build-to-suit capacity only
- No space available for immediate occupancy
- No dedicated data center sales team
- No public marketing campaign
- A requirement to preserve the client’s existing sales relationships
WiredRE’s Approach
WiredRE developed and executed an integrated commercial strategy that connected customer acquisition with infrastructure planning.
The engagement included:
- Repositioning the asset for large-scale enterprise demand
- National and international client acquisition
- Development of the site’s customer and product strategy
- Network requirements definition
- Support for network procurement negotiations
- Coordination of customer demand with future infrastructure investment
- Identification of cloud, hosting, enterprise, and market-expansion opportunities
Rather than treating sales and infrastructure as separate activities, WiredRE aligned customer requirements with network, capacity, and expansion decisions.
Capex Summary
- Location: 12121 Grant St, Thornton, CO 80241
- Status: Immediate availability
- Area: Over 100,000 SF
- Class: Carrier Hotel
- PUE: TBD
- Network: Up to 13 + providers via downtown link
- FEA Security
- FEA Security Posted $6,800,000
- Additional FEA Security Required $4,000,000
- Total Security $10,800,000
- Capital Expenditure (Substation Completion)
- Capital Spent to Date $5,000,000
- Remaining Substation Capital $20,000,000
- Total Capex $25,000,000
Overview
Rare opportunity to purchase a fully permitted, ERCOT approved campus with the perpetual right to draw 1,000MW of electrical power at globally advantaged cost.
Power Infrastructure
- Located on approximately 350 acres of land near Haskell County, Texas.
- Facilities Extension Agreement in place with utility AEP Texas
to modify the nearby Clear Crossing Substation
interconnect. - Construction of new 345 kV transmission line connection to
ERCOT grid commenced by AEP Texas - Design phase ongoing for proprietary 345 kV transmission line
and substation - Purchase orders issued for key long-lead substation equipment
$61M+
Customer contract secured within 90 days of engagement
$4M+
Annual revenue represented by the initial contract
20%+
Pricing premium above the relevant peer group
$12M+
Additional value attributed to the pricing premium
The engagement also created a broader pipeline of enterprise, cloud, hosting, and geographic-expansion opportunities, while supporting network product definition and procurement negotiations.
