01
Sizing
a port.
The sun works part-time, and so do the machines. In every port the battery leads and the machines follow the sun.
Malaysia gives roughly four to five full-sun hours a day. Each port pairs about 7 MWp of floating solar with a battery and a compute hub. The battery runs the port’s own grid, keeps the site alive through a day without sun and restarts it. The machines run through the sunlit hours and the early evening, then switch off block by block. Some midday sun is left unused on purpose: more battery to catch it would cost more than it earns.
Storage is lithium-iron-phosphate, chosen for cycle life and behaviour in a hot, humid climate. The battery forms the port’s grid; the solar inverters and the machines follow it. The compute hubs are air-cooled containers with evaporative pads for hot afternoons, and no pond water is used for cooling.
02
The reference
port.
One design, built once properly, then repeated port by port. It is the platform’s most valuable single asset — and it is a drawing, not a building.
| Parameter | Design value | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Unit | 1 port | One solar array, one battery, one compute hub — its own island grid |
| Solar | ~7 MWp | Floating, on a former mining pond |
| Battery | 5–10 MWh | Runs the grid, keeps essential services alive, restarts the port |
| Compute load | 1–2 MW | Follows the sun; runs part of each day |
| Solar against load | 4–6× | A priced balance; some midday sun left unused |
| Energy asset life | 25 years | Panels warranted 25–30; the first site is designed for 21 |
| Compute refresh | 3–7 years | Re-decided at each refresh |
| Close to energised | 12–18 months | Containers and modules, low voltage, no transformers, no diesel |
Rounded concept figures from Volume I. A hub is a site of one or more ports; the first site is planned as two. Verified engineering parameters and the full equipment schedule are released only under non-disclosure.
03
Why a mega-site
was rejected.
The arithmetic settles it. A single one-gigawatt off-grid site would need several gigawatts-peak of solar over many thousands of acres, and one fault would stop all of it.
No such parcel is available on terms worth having. Small ports, added side by side, are not a compromise — they are what the physics permits, and a fault in one stops only that one.
04
The layers,
bottom to top.
Each one only works because the layer beneath it already does.
- 01 · Land
- Ground industry has finished with. Permanent. Most often contributed as equity through the relevant site structure; other sites may be acquired or leased.
- 02 · Energy
- Solar over water and ground, batteries on the bank. Twenty-five years. The cost of power becomes a decision taken once.
- 03 · Compute
- The layer that changes. Three to five years, then re-decided against whatever earns most per megawatt.
- 04 · Capital
- Platform company above, project vehicles below. Set out in full on its own page.