Pillar II: Horizon Geothermal Solutions

Geothermal Cooling-as-a-Service for AI Hyperscalers.

Eliminating millions of gallons of freshwater evaporation and reducing data center cooling cost using deep subsurface sedimentary aquifers as permanent geothermal heat sinks.

Geothermal Facility
Request Hyperscale Site Feasibility
95%
Water Consumption Cut
20% – 30%
Potential Reduction in Cooling Demand
Multi-Year
Take-or-Pay Agreements
$70M
NPV10% (After-Tax) (30 MW Module)
Macro Compute Headwinds

The AI Power & Freshwater Bottleneck

Next-generation GPUs (Blackwell, Rubin, custom TPUs) produce heat fluxes that break conventional evaporative chillers.

The Legacy Crisis: Water & Power Moratoriums

  • •Severe Municipal Water Depletion: A standard 100 MW data center evaporates 1M–5M gallons of potable drinking water every single day.
  • •Massive Parasitic Power Load: Conventional chillers consume up to 40% of a data center’s total incoming grid power during peak summer heat waves.
  • •Regulatory Permitting Halts: Municipalities across the US Sunbelt are passing moratoriums blocking new data center builds due to water grid strain.

The Horizon CaaS Architecture: Subsurface Heat Sink

  • •Freshwater Management: Our closed looped geothermal cooling system reduces water consumption in evaporative data center cooling towers.
  • •Closed-Loop Geo-Exchange: Thermal fluid circulates through Class V closed-loop arrays in native sedimentary aquifers at 1,500–3,500 ft depth. Zero water consumed.
  • •Capex-to-Opex Transformation: Horizon finances, builds, owns, and operates the thermal infrastructure under multi-year take-or-pay cooling utility contracts.

Interactive Explorer

Geological schematic showing how surface AI data centers connect to Class V closed-loop geothermal aquifers and Class VI permanent CO₂ storage.

Explore Our Platform
DEPTH: Surface

AI Thermal & Water Management

Increases usable compute power primarily by removing heat more efficiently and allowing more electrical capacity to be directed to IT equipment rather than cooling infrastructure.

Infrastructure Management: Does not just reduce water and cooling costs but also converts thermal efficiency into additional megawatts of revenue-producing AI compute.
Telemetry & Specs
Water Abatement
Reduced Consumption
Target PUE
< 1.15
Cooling Medium
Closed-Loop Electric
Contract Model
Take-or-Pay
Investment Structure

Commercial Model: Converting Upfront Capex to Predictable Opex

Modular Deployment
30 MW Scalable

Designed for rapid modular scalability from single computing pods to 150 MW+ hyperscale campuses.

Target Project Returns
15% – 20% IRR

Investment-grade utility-like return profile backed by multi-year take-or-pay commitments from hyperscalers.

Initial Module NPV10% (After-Tax)
$70 Million

Baseline NPV10% for an initial 30 MW installation.