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We're building sustainable data center infrastructure.

Water draw, constant noise, and hundred-acre footprints have turned data centers into the most contested buildings in America. We think the answer is a smaller, quieter, self-contained machine.

Compact self-contained data center unit with solar roof at sunset, person at the walk-in door (illustrative concept)

The problem

The AI boom is colliding with communities worldwide.

Public opposition75%of Americans say they would oppose a data center near their home, a collapse in public support in a single year.Heatmap / Embold Research poll, Aug 2026
Blocked projects$130Bin US data center projects blocked or delayed by local opposition in the first quarter of 2026 alone.Data Center Watch, 2026
Water use5M galof water per day consumed by the largest evaporative-cooled facilities, comparable to a small town. Water is now the top objection in contested projects.World Resources Institute, 2025
Grid strain4.4% → 12%data centers' share of all US electricity, 2023 versus the projected 2028 high case. Grid strain is showing up on household power bills.Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / US DOE, 2024
Noise24/7hum from chillers and generators has drawn noise lawsuits and ordinance violations from Texas to Wisconsin to Michigan.Reported litigation, 2024 to 2026
Land use224 acresaverage site size for a new data center in 2024, up 144 percent in two years, often on farmland.American Farm Bureau Federation, 2025

The shift

Even the industry agrees:
the old design is out of road.

The major operators are moving to closed-loop cooling that consumes no water, and to prefabricated builds that cut delivery times in half. That is exactly the direction our program was designed around.

The RovoSmart answer

A data center you can walk into, built like a machine, sited like a good neighbor.

Compact by design.

Our data center program packages compute power into a self-contained unit in the footprint of a freight trailer. It arrives complete, drops onto a prepared pad, and scales accordingly.

Closed-loop cooled.

Cooling runs as a sealed liquid loop inside the unit, not an evaporative system taking from the municipal supply.

Renewable-powered and quiet.

Units are engineered for solar and battery operation with off-grid capability, inside a sealed enclosure designed to hold its sound.

Deployed in months, not years.

Because the unit is factory-built, the program is designed for deployment in a few months from order, against the multi-year timeline a conventional facility takes.

Cutaway of a RovoSmart data center unit: server racks, closed-loop cooling, and solar roof on a prepared pad (illustrative concept)

Side by side

The conventional campus, and the RovoSmart unit.

Same compute. Two very different neighbors.

Conventional campusThe RovoSmart unit
Water

Evaporative cooling can draw millions of gallons a day from the municipal supply.

A sealed liquid loop keeps the water inside the machine.

Land

Hundreds of acres behind a fence line, often on farmland.

A compact unit on a small prepared pad, alone or in rows.

Noise

Chillers and generators hum against the neighborhood around the clock.

A sealed enclosure engineered to hold its sound inside.

Power

Leans on the local grid and shows up on household bills.

Engineered for solar and battery operation with off-grid capability.

Speed

18 to 36 months to stand up a conventional facility.

Factory-built, with a design target of a few months from order.

Scale

Growth means breaking ground on a bigger building.

Growth means adding units to the row.

Need compute without the constraints?

Talk to us about the data center program: siting, power, and a deployment plan measured in weeks.

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