ReadyInfra Digital Infrastructure

Ready when Compute is…

Latency-bound inference runs where the users are. ReadyInfra Digital Infrastructure develops mid-scale data centers at the metro edge—sited against measured fiber and a verified power path, delivered to a repeatable modular standard, and operated by the same team that builds them.

Why Now

The demand is here today. The power is five years out.

Capital and demand are both available. What the market cannot buy is time, and that constraint is what a development platform has to be engineered around.

Vacancy across North American data centers, for a third straight year.

5 years

Median wait from a US grid interconnection request to live power.

$49.7B

Spent on US data center construction in 2025, up 43 percent on the prior year.

Vacancy: JLL, North America Data Center Report, Midyear 2026. Interconnection wait: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Queued Up, 2026. Construction spending: US Census Bureau, Value of Construction Put in Place, revised series, August 2026.

The Node

Inference lives at the edge

Training can run anywhere power is cheap. Inference cannot—it answers a user in milliseconds, so the compute has to sit close to that user.

Location

Sites are selected using measured fiber routes to the carrier hotels and exchanges that actually serve the metro, not straight-line distance on a map.

Latency

Every inference query is answered in milliseconds. Distance is not a tuning parameter—it is a hard limit on what the site can serve.

Scale

Multiple nodes per metro edge let a tenant expand inside the same latency zone instead of moving to a different market.

5–50 MW

Target range per node

We build mid-scale inference nodes, with 5 to 50 MW as the optimal range rather than a fixed limit. The size is set by the latency envelope and the tenant profile, not by the economics of a hyperscale training campus.

Almost every campus built to date was designed for training. A data center takes years to deliver, so building inference capacity now means building ahead of the demand it will serve.

Route to Power

The fastest megawatt is the one already there

Abandoned and underused industrial facilities already carry the service, the gas, and the utility account. Bringing one of those buildings back skips the longest queue in the industry.

Advantage

A shorter entitlement path

Industrial or commercial use is already established on the parcel, so no farmland is converted and no residential neighborhood is rezoned to accommodate the project.

Advantage

Service already in place

An existing utility account and established service capacity change the question from “when can we get power” to “how much headroom is there and what does it cost to add more.”

Advantage

A liability becomes an anchor

Cleaned-up brownfields returned between $29 million and $97 million in local tax revenue across 48 sites in a single year, per EPA program studies. Towns treat that differently than they treat a greenfield rezoning.

Advantage

Phased revenue

Modular halls are commissioned in phases, so a site can carry revenue while later capacity is still being built out rather than waiting on a single completion date.

Time to power

Grid request to live power, US median

5 years

Industrial site with service already in place

Months

Queue wait: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Queued Up, 2026. Tax revenue: EPA Brownfields Program studies. Timelines vary by site and utility; allocated power remains subject to utility confirmation.

How We Develop

From first parcel screen to live compute

One team carries the project end to end. The group that underwrites the site is the group that operates it, which is what keeps the underwriting honest.

Site and power

Powered land close to the market it serves, screened on measured fiber distance, existing utility service, substation headroom, water, zoning, and environmental condition.

Entitlements

Zoning, permitting, and utility or generation agreements carried in-house, alongside the community engagement that determines whether a project gets built at all.

Build

Modular halls fabricated off site and phased in with demand. Footprint, cost, and schedule are known from the day the data room opens because the design set is fixed.

Compute

Rack-ready colocation for tenant hardware, with the density and power envelope specified before procurement rather than discovered during commissioning.

Operate

We operate what we build, to the same readiness standard our advisory practice applies for clients—gates, turnover evidence, qualified staff, and OT governance in place before first load.

Repeat

One standard across sites means each project starts from the last one’s drawings, vendors, and procedures instead of from a blank page.

The Edge

What this team brings to a development

Three advantages that compound with every project rather than resetting at each one.

Advantage 01

Operators who develop

Most developers hand a finished building to somebody else and move on. ReadyInfra runs an operational readiness practice for other developers, and holds itself to the same standard. The operating cost and staffing load are in the model at underwriting, not discovered in year one.

Advantage 02

Equipment and supply chain access

The electrical grid is not the only queue. Transformers, switchgear, and generators all carry multi-year lead times, and a first-time buyer sits behind the hyperscalers. Leadership relationships and board experience across critical equipment suppliers improve procurement visibility and technical insight on lead times.

Advantage 03

Site-level transparency

Community support decides whether a data center gets built. We publish the same plain-language label at every site—energy, water, carbon, noise, jobs, and local investment—so a town can read the numbers without an industry glossary.

Transparency

The nutrition label

The industry has no metric written for the public.

Every operator measures efficiency, water, and carbon its own way, in terms that mean very little outside the industry.

We publish one label at every site.

Energy, water, carbon, noise, jobs, and community investment, each stated in plain terms and reported on the same schedule at every site we run.

The label is the licence.

Community support decides whether a project gets built today. Faster entitlements, fewer stalled projects, and durable relationships with host towns are what transparency actually earns.

The Label

Community commitments

Site specific, published

Energy

Energy use per day, in household terms

Water

Gallons per day, in household terms

Carbon

Per unit of compute, quarterly

Heat and noise

Measured at the property line

Jobs on site

Construction and permanent

Capital into the town

Dollars per year, published

One label. Every site. Numbers a town can read.

Criteria

What we look for in a site

These are the parameters a parcel has to clear before it reaches underwriting. They are also the screen we apply on behalf of diligence clients.

Development criteria

5 to 50 MW as the target range per node, sized to the latency envelope and tenant profile rather than to a fixed limit

Inside the metro latency envelope, verified against measured fiber routes to the exchanges and carrier hotels that serve it

Brownfield and powered industrial sites preferred, where utility service is established and industrial use is already entitled

Grid supply or on-site generation, decided per site on lead time and delivered cost of power rather than by default

A host community we can commit to, where the published site label is an asset in the entitlement process rather than a liability

Leadership

Two partners, forty years of critical infrastructure

ReadyInfra Digital Infrastructure is led by the firm’s two Managing Partners.

CK Krishnan

Managing Partner

20+ years in mission-critical operations, design, energy & sustainability — from Tier IV facilities to hyperscale campuses as EVP of Operations at CloudHQ. Prior leadership roles at Fidelity, Deutsche Bank, and JLL.

Nabeel Mahmood

Managing Partner

27+ years building data centers, from hyperscale campuses to emerging compute architecture. Board director, global keynote speaker, and co-founder of the Nomad Futurist Foundation.

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