Development — Structuring — Digital Infrastructure
Energy-backed digital infrastructure.
We develop a pipeline of large-scale data center sites in Germany whose power supply is secured from the outset. Whether the site brings that capacity with it or it is built on site is decided site by site, not fixed in advance.
We develop sites into investable infrastructure
We do not run data centers and we do not build them ourselves — which is precisely why we can assemble the right partners for each site.
Our work begins long before anything is visible on the ground: identifying locations, testing gas and grid capacity, resolving planning law, and aligning municipalities, authorities and network operators.
Where a partner finances construction, aeiton can remain invested beyond the point of sale. Which route is taken is decided site by site.
The same method, applied again and again
Originate
Land with municipal backing
Secure
Control over the site
De-risk
Proven connection and buildability
Structure
Separate companies and capital circles
Lead partners
Construction, operator and capital path
Transfer
A site ready to be built on
Several site threads run in parallel across different German states, each at a different stage; the technical and construction partners work with us across all of them, not only from step five onwards. What we learn on one site shortens the next.
What we do
Site Origination
Identifying and testing locations against gas, grid, water, heat, setback and planning criteria — before anyone else is looking.
Secured Power Supply
Two routes of equal standing: a site that brings the capacity with it, or gas-fired generation on site — with heat recovery and a certified hydrogen conversion path.
Capital Structuring
Separable assets with distinct risk profiles, prepared for institutional and infrastructure investors.
Partner Orchestration
Turbine suppliers, plant engineers, construction partners, owner’s engineers and public stakeholders.
04 — The difference
Secured capacity where the grid does not deliver.
Across Europe, data center projects are stalling on grid connection dates rather than on capital or demand. Where a site already brings the capacity with it, that is the fastest route to secured power. Where it does not, a gas-fired generation plant on the site removes the dependency on the connection date.
The grid application runs from day one in either case. Where on-site generation carries primary supply, the connection becomes later redundancy, an additional revenue path, and the decarbonisation pathway of the asset — with grid power available, the plant runs fewer hours and emissions fall.
From land and energy to digital infrastructure.
Two companies, two asset classes
Generation and data center are held separately, connected by a direct line and a long-term power supply agreement.
Generation company
An operating energy business with its own revenue streams — power supply, heat, and later grid sales and capacity contracts. Its buyers are infrastructure and energy funds.
Data center company
A property and letting business, built and let in phases. Its buyers are institutional core investors with a different holding logic entirely.
An energy fund does not buy a data center. A core investor does not buy a power plant. Held together, both are harder to sell; held separately, each finds its own market at its own moment.
07 — Regional partnership
Built with the region — not just in it.
Heat is the part that genuinely stays local — it cannot be transported far. High-grade heat from the generation plant can serve a district network; warm water from the liquid-cooled halls suits greenhouses, aquaculture and drying processes. Alongside that: skilled permanent jobs, substantial regional construction work, and trade tax from an operating business.
Good infrastructure is a good neighbour.
Partners & interfaces
We work at the interface of landowners, municipalities and authorities, grid and gas network operators, plant engineers, construction partners, data center operators and investors.
We already work with plant engineers, power plant designers and construction firms and operators . We name them in conversation.
Why aeiton
- 01Sites whose power supply is secured from the outset — through an existing connection or through generation on site.
- 02A clear understanding of gas, power, land and capital requirements.
- 03The ability to align stakeholders across complex permitting environments.
- 04A structure that keeps generation and data center separately financeable.
- 05Early, transparent engagement with the municipalities that grant consent.
aeiton
Building the infrastructure layer for the AI economy.
From power availability to hyperscale readiness
Founders
Johannes Hofmann
Strategy, site origination and stakeholder relations with municipalities and technical partners.
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