Cloverleaf Infrastructure has struck a strategic partnership with NVIDIA, which has also taken a minority stake in the company, to speed up development of AI factories across the United States. The deal brings NVIDIA's technology into the earlier stages of Cloverleaf's site development, targeting the power, cooling, and infrastructure demands of America's growing AI pipeline.
The US infrastructure developer will apply NVIDIA's DSX platform earlier in its development process. That platform brings site, power, cooling, computing, and facility decisions together, letting customers assess infrastructure trade-offs before projects are advanced. The goal is to evaluate how AI factories can deliver more useful AI output within the limits of available power and grid capacity.
Bringing power and compute together
Since its founding in 2024, Cloverleaf has developed a pipeline of multiple gigawatt-scale projects for customers across North America. The partnership is focused on helping Cloverleaf and its utility partners respond to rising demand for accelerated computing by developing the physical infrastructure needed to support AI workloads.
"AI is accelerating demand for digital infrastructure at an unprecedented scale and driving strong economic development opportunities for American communities," said David Berry, Co-Founder and CEO of Cloverleaf. "This partnership strengthens Cloverleaf's ability to identify and develop high-quality sites that provide the compute power for our country's growth and security. Together, we will help America's businesses and workers gain a critical edge."
Optimising every megawatt
Access to powered, shovel-ready sites has become critical as developers look to bring new AI capacity online. Instead of treating compute, power, cooling, and facility planning as separate stages, the partnership will connect these decisions earlier in the project lifecycle. That helps customers understand infrastructure constraints and optimise available resources before construction begins.
Once facilities are operational, NVIDIA DSX infrastructure and software will help customers optimise energy use and computing capacity. Cloverleaf customers will be able to engage with NVIDIA across the wider AI factory stack, including accelerated computing, high-performance networking, infrastructure and platform software, and NVIDIA DSX.
"AI factories are the infrastructure of the intelligence age, and land, power, and shell are their foundation," said Nico Caprez, Vice President of Global AI Infrastructure Growth at NVIDIA. "Cloverleaf brings deep expertise in power and site development to create exceptional, long-lived sites for generations of accelerated computing. Together, we are accelerating the build out of AI infrastructure that will strengthen America's energy infrastructure and power the next wave of innovation."
The approach places the physical requirements of AI workloads alongside the computing infrastructure itself. Site and power considerations can be assessed alongside cooling and compute requirements rather than being addressed independently. The partnership also gives Cloverleaf access to NVIDIA's wider AI infrastructure capabilities as it progresses its development pipeline across North America.
Why this matters for IT and development professionals
For teams responsible for deploying and operating AI infrastructure, this partnership signals a shift toward planning compute and physical plant as a single system. The earlier that power constraints, cooling requirements, and grid capacity are factored into project decisions, the fewer costly retrofits and delays downstream. That means IT leaders should expect site selection and facility design to become a more integrated part of AI capacity planning - not an afterthought handled once compute decisions are made.
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