Pioneering a Cleaner Digital Future
Empowering the digital world with innovative, sustainable data center solutions using clean renewable energy and efficient water management
On the edge of the Southern California desert sits an abundance of land, geothermal and solar power, and access to national long-haul and dark fiber networks.
Location Benefits
There is a 3,000-megawatt (MW) known geothermal resource and 1,000 MW of solar and battery storage nearby. CalEthos’ site is surrounded by reliable high-voltage transmission lines connected to nearby geothermal and solar power plants. Additional transmission lines are being developed to support the expansion of existing and planned new power plants over the next 3-5 years.
Local geothermal producers are planning to expand from the current 425 MW of production to 1.5 – 2 gigawatts (GW), with the potential to go to 3 GW. In addition, the local electricity utility expects to add an additional 3 GW of solar production and battery storage to the current Imperial County 3 GW solar portfolio over the next 5-10years.
CalEthos Data Center Area
Existing Geothermal Power Plants
Planned Geothermal Power Plants
Solar Farms
Transmission Lines
Low Latency Connectivity
CalEthos’ location provides it with access to several key long-haul fiber networks that offer low-latency connectivity through diverse geographically-routed paths to major network hubs.
One-way Latency:
3.25ms to San Diego
3.50ms to Los Angeles
4.00ms to Phoenix
5.00ms to Las Vegas
Development Specs
For additional information, download the CalEthos Data Center Project Brochure
Management Team
Michael
Campbell
Chief Executive
Officer
Michael Campbell
Chairman and CEO
Mr. Campbell has over 40 years of executive management experience. First 20 years in the computer industry creating and operating various companies that included a computer retail operation, a data storage peripheral company with joint ventures in Russia, China, and Spain, a call center for telco provisioning, and an online broadband ordering and order aggregation service. Over the past 20-plus years, Mr. Campbell has acted as an advisor to hyper-organic-growth and consolidation strategies in a wide range of industries and founded companies in the mining, agriculture, and crypto industries in Brazil, Europe, and Korea.
Joel
Stone
President and
COO
Joel Stone
President and COO
Mr. Stone has over 30 years of experience leading operations, engineering, construction, integration, transformation, and technical leadership in the data center infrastructure, sourcing, and telecommunications industries. He has held various leadership positions, such as leading the Global Site Sourcing teams for Meta Platforms, serving as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of RagingWire Data Centers (NTT), Vice President of Global Data Center Operations for CenturyLink Communications, and Group Operations Director at Global Switch in London. He also spent nine years at Microsoft, leading all North America data center operations.
Brian
Mattson
Chief Strategy and Development Officer
Brian Mattson
Executive Advisor
Mr. Mattson has over 40 years of experience leading large-scale Engineering and Construction programs globally in the Semiconductor and Data Center Industries. Mr. Mattson led two global data center organizations for Google; Infrastructure Supply Chain and Construction Program Controls; with an approximate $12B annual capital budget. Prior to Google, Mr. Mattson was VP of Construction for NTT Global Data Centers America (RagingWire), led Global Data Center Construction and Infrastructure Supply Chain at Microsoft, lived in China and led Asia Construction for Intel, led North and South America GPC Construction after his repatriation at Intel, and was Chairman/President of Micron Construction (a subsidiary of Micron Technology responsible for Micron’s global semiconductor construction program while also serving other industrial and commercial construction clients). Mr. Mattson started his career as a Consulting Engineer performing Mechanical Designs for Industrial, Commercial, and Health Care clients.
Timothy
Coe
VP of Data
Center Development
Timothy Coe
Development and Project Management
Mr. Coe has over 20 years of experience leading Mission Critical Capital Projects. Mr. Coe was previously responsible for engineering and construction of new data center developments in Oregon and retrofit programs at Meta’s 17 domestic and international data center sites. Prior to Meta, Mr. Coe worked in the Upstream Oil & Gas industry-leading onshore and offshore engineering, procurement, and construction projects for ConocoPhillips and BP.
Development Partners
Best In Class
Data Center Design, Engineering Site Assessment & Feasibility
CalEthos contracted HDR to evaluate all aspects of site development and data center design and provide it with multiple power, cooling , and facility options to accommodate Hyper-scale and Large Enterprise IT customers. HDR is a leading Mission Critical Data Center engineering, design, and development consulting company that provides services to Hyper-scale and leading Data Center Co-location Companies worldwide.
HDR specializes in the development of edge computing for large enterprise facilities to hyper-scale campuses; they help companies of all sizes develop modular, scalable solutions that help them prepare for an unknown future.
HDR’s experts have spent their entire careers focused on the design, construction, and operation of mission critical facilities. They have successfully designed dozens of mission critical facilities throughout the U.S. and overseas for a variety of public and private clients. They are widely recognized for their ability to design and execute buildings that are highly technical and operate with advanced building systems.
Grid Delivery Assessment, Strategy, Engineering & Substation Design
CalEthos contracted ZGlobal to assess all available power and transmission routes in its immediate area and develop a plan to access power from close by geothermal and solar producers.
ZGlobal is designing and engineering a substation that will handle multiple 230kV feeds from various energy sources that will provide CalEthos with an abundant supply of both primary and backup electricity to power its generator-less, 100% clean-energy, state-of-the-art data center campus.
The initial substation is planned to handle up to 500MW of energy.
ZGlobal provides CalEthos with the expertise and depth of the local grid to allow CalEthos to proceed through all phases of its electrical substation development, construction , and operations for its planned data center campus.
Fiber Route Development, Engineering and Permit Package Development
CalEthos contracted American Dark Fiber (ADF) to develop a robust fiber-based infrastructure which will provide two diverse paths of connectivity to the CalEthos Imperial Data Center Campus. This will ensure both high network availability and a complete redundant second network connection in case of a major outage. ADF has partnered with HP communications, who are providing engineering support to design and complete permit ready submittal packages for the entirety of both diverse routes.
ADF became a CA-based full facilities CLEC in 2019, who designs, builds, integrates, and operates telecom infrastructure systems, focusing solely on “dark fiber” networks. These networks are deployed in the public Rights of Way, typically for wholesale applications to carriers, data center operators, governments, and other high-bandwidth users.
ADF’s management team has 30 years’ experience in the industry and has developed nearly 3,000 route miles of fiber in Southern California.
Construction Project and Cost Management
CalEthos contracted LineSight to initially provide cost benchmarking of early design concepts, and to assist with desktop pre-qualification of Architect-Engineering Firms and Construction Managers.
As the project progresses into design and construction their scope will increase to include Construction Cost Estimating, Sourcing, Job Cost Management, Change Management, Risk Management, Schedule Reviews, and Construction Invoice Reviews.
LineSight is a global leader in Construction Controls Management and is by far the market leader in the Data Center industry having managed cost, procurement, and controls on greater than 440 Data Centers totaling over
$89B in construction value globally.
LineSight was acquired by Berkshire Hathaway in 2023.
Careers
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At CalEthos, we’re not just building data centers. We are engineering a cleaner, more sustainable future for the digital world. If you are passionate about making a difference and ready to contribute to the forefront of the data center industry, we want to hear from you.
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