Cloverleaf Infrastructure announced that it secured capital commitments totaling over $300 million from private equity investors NGP and Sandbrook Capital, along with contributions from its management team.
Cloverleaf is a recently formed developer of large-scale digital infrastructure sites powered by low-carbon electricity. And the company is led by a team of seasoned executives with backgrounds from renowned independent power developers like Pattern Energy and ConnectGen, and major data center operators like Microsoft.
Cloverleaf also collaborates with regional US utilities and data center operators to deliver scalable clean electricity through strategic investments in transmission, grid interconnection, land, onsite power generation, and electricity storage.
Berry was previously cofounder and CFO of clean energy and transmission developers ConnectGen and Clean Line Energy Partners. And Cloverleaf’s management team also includes Chief Technical Officer Jonathan Abebe, who has held senior engineering and technical roles at the Department of Energy, Pattern Energy and Clean Line Energy and Vice President Nur Bernhardt, formerly Director or Energy Strategy at Microsoft.
KEY QUOTES:
“The rapid growth in demand for electricity to power cloud computing and artificial intelligence poses a major climate risk if fueled by high-emission fossil fuels. However, it’s also a major opportunity to catalyze the modernization of the US grid and the transition to a smarter and more sustainable electricity system through a novel approach to development. Cloverleaf is committed to making this vision a reality with the support of leading climate investors like Sandbrook and NGP.”
- David Berry, Cloverleaf’s CEO
“The large tech companies have become dominant players in the electricity sector, and they are genuinely determined to power their growth with the lowest possible emissions. Achieving this objective doesn’t depend on disruptive new technologies as much as it does on dedicated teams working hand in hand with utility partners to maximize the use of the clean generation, storage, and other technologies we already have.”
- Brian Janous, Cloverleaf’s Chief Commercial Officer and former Vice President of Energy at Microsoft
“The sustainable development of digital infrastructure at scale is fundamentally a technical power problem. We have witnessed members of the Cloverleaf team effectively address this challenge for many years through a blend of creativity, specialized engineering, a partnership mindset, and astute capital deployment.”
- Alfredo Marti, Partner at Sandbrook
“Having backed hundreds of energy companies in the US over more than 30 years, we believe the opportunity set for clean-powered digital infrastructure development is as compelling as anything we’ve seen before, and the convergence of exceptional talent from both the power and digital sectors at Cloverleaf is truly extraordinary.”
- Sam Stoutner, Partner at NGP
