Data centers

Firm your first phase with capacity your utility can count.

We contract metered flexibility from water and industrial plants on your utility, so new load can connect while the grid catches up.

We firm your first phase, typically tens of megawatts, where the limit is supply rather than wires. Your campus keeps running at full output while the plants around it step aside. If a plant underperforms, portfolio reserve covers it first, and your contract sets the rest.

How it counts

Year0.0

Illustrative 200 MW campus with a 40 MW first tranche from plants. Depends on your utility accepting the capacity; timelines vary by utility and site.

How it counts

Capacity your utility can count on, from plants on your grid.

We build each deal around your utility's rules. Some new large-load tariffs let customers bring approved alternatives that add capacity, instead of interrupting their own load. Where your utility's rules don't allow it yet, we tell you up front. You sign one contract with Argo, covering every plant behind your capacity. Flexibility frees capacity, not wires: it helps where the limit is supply at peak, not where your site needs a new substation. Your Brief says which applies.

01 · Same grid

Matched to your utility and zone

We only pair your site with plants on the same utility and behind the same grid constraints, so the megawatts land where you need them.

02 · Real channels

Through programs that exist

Utility capacity contracts, large-load tariff provisions and interruptible service, where your utility allows them.

03 · Firm

Firm means it counts

Firm means accredited under your utility's or market's rules. Every plant is modeled hour by hour and metered against an agreed baseline. Commitments carry reserve across many plants. Any shortfall is measured, reported and made right under your contract.

Your options

The fastest megawatt is already built.

How plant flexibility compares with the other ways to firm a new campus.

	Plant flexibility	On-site gas	Batteries	Throttle your own load
Path to firm power	Contract in months, then utility acceptance	Years, with turbine backlogs	One to two years, then interconnection	Months, needs a utility agreement
Utility approval needed	Yes	Yes	Sometimes	Yes
Your compute	Full output	Full output	Full output	Curtailed in events
Permits at your site	None	Air permit	Space and fire code	None
Capital you carry	None upfront; capacity payments	High	High	None, but lost revenue
Typical scale	Tens of MW per site, growing	Hundreds of MW	Tens to hundreds of MW	Your flexible share
Best used as	First tranche while the grid builds	Long-term supply	Peak shaving, backup	Pairs with plant flexibility

Speed-to-Power Brief

A plan for your site, in about a week.

Your gap. When you need firm power versus when your utility plans to deliver it, from public planning documents.

Flexible supply near you. How much water, wastewater and industrial flexibility sits on your utility and grid zone, as a range, and how much accredits.

The path. Which contract route fits your market, and what your utility will need to see.

A walkthrough on a call. How the path would work for your site and what it would take, before any terms.

Timeline to a term sheet. The steps, the owners and the dates.

Start here

Tell us about your site.

Two minutes. Your Speed-to-Power Brief follows in about a week.

Confidential. We never share site details.