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Inside the first ‘bring your own’ VPP program for data centers | Latitude Media

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Virtual power plant provider Voltus is betting that scaling VPPs to mitigate data center load growth is more about designing the right commercial structure than it is about redesigning power markets. As part of a new offering announced today in partnership with data center infrastructure developer Cloverleaf Infrastructure, Voltus is looking to evolve the concept of bilateral contracting for capacity for the AI era. “Bring your own capacity” is a go-to-market framework in which data centers can finance and then harness the flexibility potential of the communities around them, bringing those megawatts to utilities as part of their capacity stack. Hyperscalers participating in Voltus’ BYO program will be committing to financing a VPP program in the particular region where they’re building a data center, Voltus CEO Dana Guernsey told Latitude Media, and Voltus will deliver that contracted capacity directly to the load-serving entity. In other words, instead of selling flexible capacity in

Virtual power plant provider Voltus is betting that scaling VPPs to mitigate data center load growth is more about designing the right commercial structure than it is about redesigning power markets. As part of a new offering announced today in partnership with data center infrastructure developer Cloverleaf Infrastructure , Voltus is looking to evolve the concept of bilateral contracting for capacity for the AI era. “Bring your own capacity” is a go-to-market framework in which data centers can finance and then harness the flexibility potential of the communities around them, bringing those m

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