Live, Work, Play
SI Centers
Low Rent, Cheap Utilities,
Shopping, Restaurants, Offices
We build apartments, shops, restaurants and offices around a liquid-cooled data center that acts as the neighborhood's own utility. Its heat becomes your cooling and hot water. That means low rent, cheap utilities, gigabit internet, and no noise.
See how it worksHow it works: heat becomes cooling and hot water
Computers make heat. Most data centers pay to throw that heat into the sky. We use it instead.
- Computers make heatEvery bit of power that goes into a computer chip comes back out as heat.
- Water carries it awayLiquid cooling picks up that heat in water pipes instead of blowing it out with fans.
- Heat runs a chillerAn absorption chiller uses heat, not a big compressor, to make cold water. It is the same trick old propane camping fridges use.
- Homes get cool air and hot waterChilled water cools the apartments. Warm water helps with showers and laundry.
Heat stops being a cost to dump. It becomes something people use.
Not a new idea
Cities like Stockholm and Copenhagen already use data center heat to warm homes through district heating.
Heat into cooling
The SuperMUC supercomputer in Munich ran absorption chillers off its hot-water-cooled racks.
Built for Texas
In Texas, homes want cooling most of the year, and a data center makes heat all year. That lines up well. Our Texas pitch is simple: cooling plus cheap power.
Why it's quiet
Almost all data center noise comes from cooling: big rooftop fans and chillers. Servers behind a wall can't be heard.
Pipes, not fans
Liquid cooling swaps thousands of small server fans for quiet pumps.
Heat goes to homes, not the sky
When heat leaves through water pipes to the chiller and the apartments, most of the big outdoor fans go away.
Backup power, sited with care
Backup generators go on the far side of the site, behind a wall.
Water carries heat more quietly than air. The louder a data center is, the more heat it is throwing away.
What residents get
A neighbor that gives back instead of taking.
No noise
Quiet is a promise, not a hope. No roaring rooftop fans next door.
Low rent
Sharing land and energy with the data center helps keep rent down.
Cheap utilities
Cooling and hot water come from the building's own heat loop, so they cost less.
Gigabit internet
Fast internet is part of the home, right next to the compute.
More than apartments
Each center mixes homes with shopping, restaurants and offices, so you can live, work and play in one place.
Shopping
Shops on the ground floor, a short walk from your door.
Restaurants
Places to eat and meet neighbors, right on the plaza.
Offices
Work space close to home, with the same fast internet.
What developers and operators get
Today the complaints about data centers are the same: they use the water, they push up power bills, and neighbors get nothing. We flip that.
Shared land cost
Homes and compute share one site.
A guaranteed heat customer
The apartments buy the cooling and hot water the hall's heat makes.
Neighbors who want you
A community that likes the data center instead of fighting it at zoning.
A simple deal
The developer owns the building and leases the hall to an operator, with a heat-and-cold contract between them, much like a hospital buying steam from a utility.
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