NVIDIA has taken a minority stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, the two companies said Aug. 21, entering a strategic partnership to speed the build-out of digital infrastructure across the United States. The investment is meant to help Cloverleaf's customers and utility partners meet growing demand for accelerated computing, and NVIDIA will work with the company on the infrastructure that AI factories need.
Cloverleaf was formed in 2024 with an initial investment from Sandbrook Capital and NGP Energy Capital. The company builds clean-powered, shovel-ready sites for firms that build and operate data centers, and it has delivered multiple gigawatt-scale projects to customers across North America since its founding.
"This partnership strengthens Cloverleaf's ability to identify and develop high-quality sites," said David Berry, Cloverleaf's co-founder and CEO. Nico Caprez, NVIDIA's vice president of global AI infrastructure growth, said AI factories are built on "land, power and shell."
Cloverleaf will apply NVIDIA's DSX platform to bring site, power, cooling, computing and facility decisions together earlier in the design process, with the aim of helping customers weigh infrastructure tradeoffs and fit more usable AI output within a site's power, water and grid limits. Once a site is running, NVIDIA DSX software is meant to help customers manage energy use and computing capacity.
Through the partnership, Cloverleaf customers can also work with NVIDIA across its wider AI factory stack, including accelerated computing, high-performance networking, and infrastructure and platform software. J.P. Morgan Securities LLC served as Cloverleaf's exclusive financial advisor on the deal, and Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as its legal counsel.
