Pre-Seed · Armenia

Energy is abundant.
Delivery is not.

HAYSOLAR builds autonomous, behind-the-meter AI compute clusters — converting locally generated energy directly into compute capacity, without waiting on grid interconnection or exporting power at regulated tariffs.

1,141 MWArmenia's installed solar capacity, March 2026
~53 AMD/kWhRetail tariff a local consumer avoids paying
18–42 AMD/kWhWhat exported solar power is paid instead
0Grid interconnection queue — by design
Investment Thesis

Four things to know before you read the rest of this page

01

Power, not chips, is the constraint

~30–50% of new global data center capacity is now being built as on-site generation because grid interconnection queues run 4–8+ years in mature markets. IEA · Cleanview · LBNL, 2026

02

Armenia is already a proven AI-compute destination

A $4B, 50,000-GPU NVIDIA-backed AI megaproject (Firebird) is under construction in Armenia right now, with U.S. and Armenian government backing. HAYSOLAR is a different category — see below.

03

The unit economics are public and verifiable

Local consumption captures ~53 AMD/kWh in displaced retail tariff vs. 18–42 AMD/kWh for grid export — a 25–65% uplift, before compute monetization on top.

04

New category: distributed, autonomous, behind-the-meter

Not a hyperscale campus. A replicable, site-by-site model for solar assets too small or too grid-constrained for gigawatt-scale players to touch.

01 — Origin

Why a solar company became a compute company

HAYSOLAR began as a renewable energy company developing grid-connected solar assets in Armenia. We hit a structural wall: the economics of renewable generation are set by regulated tariffs and utility policy, not by the cost of producing the energy. Pre-2020 stations sell under fixed feed-in tariffs; post-2022 stations sell into an open market with no price floor at all. Either way, someone else prices your export.

The highest-value electron is the one consumed locally.

A kilowatt-hour used behind the meter is worth the full retail tariff it displaces — not the export price it would otherwise fetch. So instead of exporting electricity, HAYSOLAR converts locally generated energy directly into AI compute, through autonomous, behind-the-meter clusters sited on the generation asset itself.

2023 Solar Infrastructure
2025 Renewable Compute Infrastructure
2026 Autonomous Energy-Native AI Infrastructure
Each step was forced by unit economics, not rebranding — the tariff and policy environment made the previous model progressively less defensible.
02 — The Armenian Grid, As It Actually Prices Power

The spread is the business case

We're not asking investors to take a macro thesis about AI power scarcity on faith. The spread between what a business pays for grid electricity and what it's paid for exporting solar power is public, regulated, and verifiable today.

Retail tariff — business / high-tier consumer
53.48 AMD/kWh
Electric Networks of Armenia (ENA) published tariff, daytime rate for consumers connected to 0.38kV lines outside the lowest household bands.
Feed-in / export tariff — utility-scale solar
18.4–41.7 AMD/kWh
PSRC-set tariff range for existing fixed-tariff solar stations, May 2026 revision. Stations built after 2022 sell on the open market with no fixed floor at all.
Local-consumption value uplift
~25–65%
The retail price displaced by on-site consumption, relative to the wholesale/export price the same electron would otherwise earn.
Policy direction
Subsidies shifting toward storage, not new standalone solar
Armenian officials have signaled incentives are being redirected from standalone solar to battery-paired and hybrid systems starting 2026 — the grid is signaling it wants dispatchable, on-site load, not more raw export capacity.
Sources: Electric Networks of Armenia — published tariff schedule; Public Services Regulatory Commission solar/small-hydro tariff decision, reported by Sputnik Armenia, May 2026; pv magazine, "Armenia hits 1 GW solar milestone," reporting Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure comments on 2026 subsidy redirection. Figures current as of this deck's preparation — reconfirm before circulating to investors, as PSRC tariffs are revisited periodically.
03 — The Mechanism

Two paths for the same electron

One path sells the electron into a market that prices it as a commodity. The other keeps it on site and converts it into a metered, monetizable unit of compute — at the full value of the tariff it displaces.

SOLAR GRID EXPORT · 18–42 AMD/kWh commodity value BESS GPU LOCAL CONSUMPTION · 53 AMD/kWh DISPLACED compute value
Export path — priced by regulator / open market
Behind-the-meter path — priced at full retail displacement, then monetized as compute
We do not sell electricity.
We sell compute capacity.
04 — Behind-the-Meter Architecture

One programmable system, five layers

Generation, storage, compute and cooling are designed as a single site — not procured as separate contracts with separate counterparties.

01

Solar

On-site generation, sized to the compute load rather than to export capacity.

02

BESS

Battery storage to flatten intermittency and keep compute utilization high overnight.

03

GPU

Compute hardware sited directly at the point of generation — no transmission losses, no interconnection queue.

04

Cooling

Site-specific thermal management, sized for Armenia's climate and elevation profile.

05

Control Layer

Software that routes power and schedules compute jobs against real-time generation — in development; see roadmap in Executive Summary.

05 — The Market

Power is the bottleneck, and it's measurable

This isn't a slogan. It's the operating reality reported by the IEA and grid operators tracking the AI buildout in 2026.

US grid interconnection queue
2,060+ GW waiting
More capacity is stuck in queue than the entire operating US grid. Average time from application to commercial operation: over 8 years in PJM (2025), up from under 2 years in 2008.
AI data center electricity growth, 2025
+50%
AI-focused data center electricity consumption surged 50% in 2025 alone, per the IEA — versus 17% growth for data centers overall.
New capacity going off-grid
30–50%
Share of new global data center capacity now designed as on-site generation rather than grid-connected, per Cleanview (Feb 2026) — up from effectively zero in early 2025.
Queue success rate
13% built, 77% withdrawn
Of US interconnection requests filed 2000–2019, per Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Grid-dependence is a real execution risk, not a hypothetical one.
Sources: IEA, "Key Questions on Energy and AI" (2026); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory interconnection queue analysis (via qz.com, May 2026); Cleanview on-site generation forecast (Feb 2026, via Tech Insider). US-specific data shown as the most rigorously tracked market; used here as evidence of a structural pattern, not a claim about Armenia's grid specifically.
06 — Why Armenia

A grid that's already telling you the answer

Proof Point — Not Hypothetical

A $4B, 50,000-GPU NVIDIA-backed AI cluster is already being built here

Firebird AI's data center in Hrazdan, Armenia — backed by NVIDIA, the Armenian government, the U.S. government, and a $300M syndicated loan from six Armenian banks — is scaling toward one of the world's top-five largest AI GPU clusters. Phase 1 (~100 MW, $500M) launches in 2026; Phase 2 ($4B, 50,000 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs) was announced in February 2026 during a U.S. Vice Presidential visit to Yerevan.

This validates the category, not our specific model — Firebird is a grid-connected, gigawatt-class hyperscale campus. HAYSOLAR is a different, complementary category. See Category below.

Sources: Firebird.ai (Feb 2026 press release); ARMENPRESS; DatacenterDynamics; EU4Digital; CIVILNET
01

Solar buildout is real and recent

Installed solar capacity crossed 1,000 MW in 2025 and reached 1,141 MW by March 2026 — 662 MW of it autonomous/behind-the-meter capacity already, not utility-scale export plants.

02

The grid operator is asking for storage, not more export

Officials have publicly flagged that 1,000+ MW of solar creates management challenges for the grid, and subsidies are being redirected toward battery-paired systems rather than standalone generation.

03

Net billing already trains the market to think behind-the-meter

Armenia's existing net-metering regime for systems up to 500kW already conditions businesses to value on-site consumption over export — HAYSOLAR extends that logic to industrial scale and to compute.

04

Deployment and land costs remain lower than Western Europe

[insert specific comparison once site-level costing is finalized] — directionally true regionally, but this claim needs a cited benchmark before it goes in front of investors.

07 — Category

A new category: Distributed Autonomous AI Infrastructure

Not a bigger, cheaper version of a hyperscale campus. A different shape of business, built for a different part of the market.

Category A — Hyperscale Grid Campus

e.g. Firebird

  • One flagship site, gigawatt-scale ambition
  • Grid-connected (plus on-site backup), state and hyperscaler-backed
  • $500M–$4B capital intensity per project
  • Wins where grid capacity and sovereign backing already exist
Category B — Distributed Autonomous Clusters

HAYSOLAR

  • Many smaller sites, sized to existing solar assets
  • Behind-the-meter by design — no interconnection queue to wait on
  • Capital-efficient per site, replicable across underused solar land
  • Wins precisely where grid capacity is constrained or uneconomical
Founder Insight

The insight came from operating inside the constraint, not observing it from outside: while developing grid-connected solar in Armenia, it became clear that regulated tariffs — not generation cost — set the ceiling on returns. That's a structural problem for every grid-connected solar developer in the country, and it doesn't get solved by building a bigger version of the same asset.

[Add: specific unfair advantage — land relationships, engineering partnerships, or regulatory access that a well-capitalized competitor couldn't replicate quickly. Needs real input before this goes to investors.]

08 — Land Partnership

Your land is worth more as compute than as export

This is also how the network scales: HAYSOLAR replicates the Genesis model onto other suitable solar sites across Armenia, in cooperation with the landowner — not by buying land outright.

Standard Solar Land Lease

The commodity option

  • Fixed rent, typically $500–1,000/acre/year internationally
  • Priced off electricity export value — the lowest-value electron
  • Landowner has no exposure to how well the asset performs
  • Well understood, low-risk, low-upside
HAYSOLAR Land Cooperation

Priced off compute, not electrons

  • Guaranteed minimum payment, structured like a standard land lease floor
  • Plus a share of compute revenue on top — priced off a business that earns far more per hectare than electricity export
  • HAYSOLAR funds, builds, and operates; landowner takes on no capital or operating risk
  • Registered, long-term land use right — survives a change of ownership
Illustrative only: even a modest single-digit percentage share of compute revenue can represent several times the payment of a standard solar-only land lease, because compute revenue per hectare runs well above electricity export value (see Executive Summary / Aramus site model). Exact floor payment, revenue-share percentage, term, and termination/decommissioning terms are still being structured with Armenian legal counsel and are not yet finalized — this section describes the cooperation model, not a binding offer.
09 — What To Verify

The AI-compute category has a real fraud problem. Check everything, including us.

"Invest in GPU compute" is now also the pitch used by unregistered daily-yield platforms promising returns no real infrastructure business can generate. Before evaluating HAYSOLAR or anyone else in this category, verify these five things — we've listed exactly what we show for each.

Physical asset location
Generic claim of data centers with addresses "not disclosed for security"
Named village, province, and elevation for the Aramus site; cadastral reference to follow LOI confirmation
Return profile
Fixed daily/weekly "guaranteed" percentage returns
Three modeled scenarios including one with negative IRR — see Executive Summary. Compute revenue is variable; nothing here is guaranteed.
Revenue math
Vague reference to "B2B demand" with no rate, utilization, or hardware figures
Named GPU rental rate benchmark, utilization assumption, and hardware cost per unit — all sourced, all editable in the underlying model
Growth mechanism
Referral bonuses paying a cut of the people you recruit
No referral structure. Capital comes from equity investors and land from long-term registered site partnerships — not recruitment.
Third-party validation
Logos of major AI companies as "trusted by," unverifiable on the companies' own sites
Named, checkable references only: Armenian tariff data (ENA), a named candidate EPC (Shtigen, shtigen.com), and the Firebird AI megaproject as independently reported market validation
This section is a general due-diligence framework, not a claim about any specific competitor or platform. Apply the same five checks to us — the underlying financial model (HAYSOLAR_Aramus_2ha_Project_Economics.xlsx) is available on request and every assumption in it is editable and sourced.
For Investors

Executive Summary

HAYSOLAR — Pre-Seed. Built to be lifted directly into a data room. Bracketed fields need a real number before this goes to an investor.

HAYSOLAR / Executive Summary / v0.1 — Draft Pending Figures
Problem

AI compute buildout is increasingly constrained by power delivery, not chip availability — grid interconnection queues and regulated tariff structures slow down or cap how much compute can be sited in any given market.

In Armenia specifically, solar generation economics are shaped by regulated feed-in tariffs and an open market with no price floor for newer stations, capping the return on grid-connected solar regardless of the underlying cost of generation.

Solution

HAYSOLAR builds autonomous, behind-the-meter AI compute clusters that convert locally generated solar power directly into compute capacity — capturing the full retail tariff value of each kilowatt-hour instead of the lower export/wholesale price.

The company sells compute capacity, not electricity, and is not a utility or a licensed energy trader.

Traction

Land: 2-hectare site in/near Aramus village, Kotayk Province — ~25 km north of Yerevan, elevation reported between 1,420–1,550 m depending on source (Wikipedia cites 1,420 m; Wikidata cites 1,550 m — needs on-site GPS confirmation). [exact plot coordinates / cadastral reference pending].

Engineering: Internal engineering-economics model (not yet a third-party EPC study) now benchmarked against a real Armenian precedent — Shtigen LLC's ArSun utility-scale plant (2 MW on ~4 ha, 0.5 MW/ha) — indicating the 2-hectare site can support ~0.85 MW solar nameplate, ~5 MWh BESS, and ~120 GPUs behind the meter. Shtigen (shtigen.com) is a real, active Armenian solar EPC with relevant utility-scale experience — a candidate contractor, [engagement not yet confirmed].

Regulatory: Structured as a compute-capacity sale, not a securities or crypto-asset offering — no CASP licensing or token issuance is part of this raise. (If that changes, it needs independent Armenian legal sign-off before any public claim of licensed status — see note below.)

Why Now

Armenia's solar base has scaled past 1,141 MW while the regulator signals a shift away from standalone export generation toward storage-paired, locally-consumed models. A $4B NVIDIA-backed AI megaproject (Firebird) is already under construction in-country — proof the category is real here, not hypothetical. HAYSOLAR occupies the distributed, behind-the-meter tier that a hyperscale campus model doesn't serve.

Why Armenia

High solar irradiation, a grid operator already grappling with export saturation, an existing net-billing culture among commercial consumers, and geography positioning between European and Asian markets.

The Ask
Round (full site build)
~$6.69M
Use of funds
Solar $0.68M · BESS $1.4M · Hangar $0.36M · GPUs $4.2M
Target close
[Quarter / Year]

Round size = total modeled CAPEX for one Genesis site (Aramus, 2 ha) — solar, BESS, hangar, and GPU hardware — per HAYSOLAR_Aramus_2ha_Project_Economics.xlsx, revised to use a real Armenian solar-density benchmark (Shtigen's ArSun plant) in place of a US empirical figure. [Decide: raised as full equity, or blended with debt/lease financing on the GPU hardware — GPUs are ~63% of this CAPEX and the most financeable component via hardware-backed debt.] Returns by scenario (8-yr IRR): Conservative −12.8% · Base 4.9% · Optimistic 25.1% — the Base case is materially weaker than in earlier drafts of this model, precisely because the Armenia-specific density figure yields less solar (and therefore fewer supportable GPUs) per hectare than the US benchmark did. See Executive Summary disclaimer above on what's modeled vs assumed.

Note on scope: this summary presents HAYSOLAR as a behind-the-meter AI infrastructure company. It intentionally excludes any tokenization, CASP-licensing, or investment-contract framing referenced in earlier drafts of related HAYSOLAR materials — those claims involve real Armenian financial regulation (the 2025 Law on Crypto-Assets and CBA Regulations 7/01–7/05) and should not appear in any investor-facing document until confirmed in writing by licensed Armenian counsel. Until then, this venture should be presented strictly as an equity pre-seed raise for physical infrastructure.

The next generation of AI compute won't wait for the grid.

HAYSOLAR is building the infrastructure that doesn't have to.