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Stark Power to acquire Sagebrush for 5.6 GW U.S. powered-land pipeline

Stark Power + Sagebrush Infrastructure Partners

Primary sourcePress release only2026-06-08
Deal structureDefinitive acquisition agreement / powered-land and co-located gas generation data-center platform
GeographyCentral United States
Infrastructure layersData centers + power infrastructure + construction / EPC + financing
Disclosed scaleFive hyperscale data-center campuses in active development across the Central U.S. totaling about 5.6 GW of aggregate IT capacity, with co-located natural-gas-fired power plants planned for dedicated behind-the-meter power

Why it matters

The strategic read

Adds a new gigawatt-scale powered-land aggregator to the AI infrastructure map. Stark is buying a development platform built around the same bottleneck hyperscalers keep signaling: fast access to land, grid interconnection and dedicated power, with Sagebrush 1 alone described as a pathway to more than 1.5 GW of IT capacity.

Source-supported terms

What was disclosed

  1. 01

    Stark Power announced on June 8, 2026 that it entered a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of Sagebrush Infrastructure Partners.

  2. 02

    Stark describes Sagebrush as a developer of hyperscale data centers and co-located natural-gas-fired power plants.

  3. 03

    The Sagebrush portfolio consists of five hyperscale data-center campuses in active development across the Central U.S.

  4. 04

    The five-campus portfolio represents approximately 5.6 GW of aggregate IT capacity.

  5. 05

    Sagebrush is concurrently developing co-located natural-gas-fired power plants intended to provide dedicated, reliable power delivery and reduce broader grid-constraint risk.

  6. 06

    The portfolio is anchored by Sagebrush 1, which Stark says benefits from adjacent utility-scale power infrastructure currently under construction and has a phased path to support more than 1.5 GW of IT capacity.

  7. 07

    Stark said Sagebrush founders Todd Cater, Timothy Dertzbaugh and Michael Whalen previously developed and monetized 4.2 GW of energy projects.

  8. 08

    Stark recently secured approximately NIS 430M, or about $140M assuming full exercise of related securities, from Israeli institutional investors to support the Sagebrush portfolio and broader U.S. expansion.

  9. 09

    DCD reported that Stark signed a deal to acquire the rights to the five data-center campuses and said financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Disclosure boundary

What is known—and what is not

Primary Stark Power / PRNewswire announcement plus DCD near-primary coverage. Public details disclose the buyer, seller, definitive acquisition agreement, portfolio scale, behind-the-meter gas-generation strategy, Sagebrush 1 anchor capacity and Stark financing support. Public materials do not disclose acquisition consideration, site names beyond Sagebrush 1, customer/tenant commitments, power-purchase terms, gas supply, interconnection queue positions, EPC awards, project financing, permitting status, delivery milestones or final closing conditions.