Lake Erie water, Cleveland’s own waste and clean firm power — turned into green hydrogen, green ammonia, hyperscale compute and a public shoreline, on the lakefront fill at Burke.
Every zone feeds another. The lake supplies water for hydrogen and cooling, city waste becomes feedstock instead of landfill, turbine exhaust becomes district heat, and the power island carries the compute. Nothing leaves the site that it could use.
Swipe the diagram sideways to see all four columns →
Heat-recovery steam on every unit, hydrogen co-fire capable, with a reserved parcel for a small modular reactor.
Mainspring linear generators and Hyliion KARNO units plus battery storage, sized N+1 and fuel-flexible.
PEM electrolysis and Haber-Bosch synthesis for fertilizer, marine fuel and industrial export.
Deep-water heat exchange for sub-1.1 PUE, with process water returned to the lake reoxygenated.
The work has been developed as three linked concepts — from a campus that leaves the airport flying, to the full peninsula, to a schematic design drawn at true scale against FAA airspace. Each stands on its own and each has its own document set.
Airport stays openBuilt only on the closed dredge-disposal peninsula at Burke’s northeast corner. The runway keeps flying, a secured gateway on the southeast side is the only way in, and a wall and vegetated buffer separate campus from airfield.
Full peninsulaThe same system at full scale: five to seven combined-cycle blocks, a data center phased to 2 GW, a marine bunkering pier on the north bulkhead and roughly 2.4 miles of public lakefront.
Drawn to true scaleA schematic design of the 178-acre lakefront fill parcel, tested in two cases — airport operating and airport closed — against the FAA Part 77 surfaces that decide what can rise where.
How the three relate. Concepts A and B share one twelve-zone program at two footprints. Concept C starts from the ground up — a traced boundary, the runway geometry and the airspace — and is where the arrival gateway and the eye-level studies were developed. Figures belong to the concept they are listed under.
The full-peninsula plan divides the campus into twelve zones, each sized and phased on its own. Bars show footprint relative to the largest zone, the 180-acre data center.
Submerged crib below the thermocline, fish-safe screens, RO + DI polishing, reoxygenated return.
~750 MW of electrolysis, about 270 t of green hydrogen a day; oxygen sold as a byproduct.
Cleveland municipal waste to clean syngas and inert slag — zero landfill.
5–7 combined-cycle blocks, ~2 GW net, HRSG steam for district heat, hydrogen co-fire capable.
~2,200 t/day for fertilizer, marine fuel, and industrial export.
345 kV tie to Cleveland Public Power and FirstEnergy; islanding-capable.
Landing for the Icebreaker Wind cable; curtailed wind becomes stored hydrogen.
First Great Lakes port offering green marine fuel at scale.
72-hour buffer that works as a grid-scale battery.
Phased 500 → 1,200 → 2,000 MW IT load, Lake Erie deep-water cooling, sub-1.1 PUE.
Promenade and Energy Discovery Center — about 2.4 miles of lakefront opened.
A live testbed for university and hospital research, and a K–PhD talent pipeline.
The campus sits beside a working runway, where the law says almost nothing may rise. So the entrance is shaped by the airspace instead of fighting it — a piece of public art that is also an FAA compliance diagram.
Eighteen pairs of anodized blades off North Marginal Road, each shorter than the last, tracing the approach surface they stand in and touching the ground exactly where it ends.
A short, level run along the campus axis to the head of the cut.
A 1,200-ft open processional below grade, lined by a 720-ft kinetic fin wall — 7,200 bronze blades whose rows show the campus’s live compute load. It emits no light by day.
A 42-ft blade pair and a 1,000-ft inlaid stainless strip on the public greenway — the tallest legal object on that half of the site, given to the public rather than the front gate.
The rules that shaped the drawings, and that any version of this campus would have to keep.
Every mass is checked against the FAA Part 77 surfaces around runway 6L/24R. Where nothing may rise, the design goes down or steps back.
The security line runs inboard of the fire lanes, so the lakefront greenway sits outside the fence and open to everyone.
Four discrete halls on a 550-ft pitch rather than one continuous wall, leaving 320 ft of open sky between masses from the greenway.
Amber 2200K light only with zero uplight, no open water to draw birds, and no horizontal spans for them to perch on near the approach.
Fish-safe intake screens, a closed cooling loop through heat exchangers, and a reoxygenation cascade before anything returns to Lake Erie.
An Energy Discovery Center, a research and education cluster, and a talent pipeline from Cleveland classrooms to the plant floor.
45 concept renderings developed from the drawing sets — aerials, eye-level views along the shoreline and the arrival, and the rooms inside the plant. Select any image to enlarge it.
AI-generated concept renderings · Proposed — illustrative only. Not an existing facility. No site control.
Proposals, detail plans, drawing sets and eye-level studies. Each opens as its own page.