The plants closed. The substations stayed.
InferenceDG turns stranded grid capacity into energized 1–20 MW sites for AI inference. We go where retired power plants and closed mills left their transformers, breakers and transmission rights behind, so tenants come online in months instead of waiting years in an interconnection queue.
Coming soon. Sites, counterparties and the team are shared with investors under NDA.
Simplified one-line diagram. The mill is gone, but the transmission tap, transformer and bus it paid for are still in place.
Why stranded power
The expensive part is already built
Substations sized for smelters, refineries and paper mills ran tens to hundreds of megawatts around the clock. When the plant closes, the equipment and the transmission rights usually stay, and so does the headroom in the utility's plans.
Small enough to skip the line
New large-load rules start at 50 to 75 MW and bring special tariffs, study fees and deposits. A 1–20 MW site sits below every one of them and takes ordinary industrial service.
Close to where inference runs
Inference answers users in real time, so it belongs near metros and fiber. Every site is screened for distance to demand and for a utility that can say yes quickly.
Below the large-load line
Hyperscalers compete for gigawatt campuses. Regulators are writing new rules for anything above 50 MW. The band underneath is where we build.
InferenceDG sites1 to 20 MW on ordinary industrial service
Large-load rules begin50 to 75 MW
Hyperscale campuses300 MW and up
Load size on a log scale. Thresholds from federal and state large-load rules and tariffs, 2025–2026.
Origination to date
The largest stranded sites are already being converted into AI campuses at gigawatt scale. We work the tier below: carve-outs and mid-size closures that the big buyers pass over.
- Stranded-grid sites screened
- 63
- Top-tier targets
- 14
- Metro edge sites screened
- 85
- States covered
- 7
- Retired generating capacity on screened sites
- 17.7 GW
As of October 2026. Each site is mapped to its utility, grid operator and owner, then scored on power, availability, demand, regulatory path and fit.
Investor briefing
The site list, utility conversations, financial model and team are available under NDA. Email us to request the briefing and data room.