Ensuring sufficient market demand is essential for any infrastructure project, and hydrogen is no different.
But a key challenge facing project developers today is finding and engaging offtakers for lower GHG hydrogen, especially those willing to sign long-term offtake agreements.
At Othersphere, we're focused on simplifying this complex challenge. Our Othersphere Explorer tool is designed to empower developers by providing instant assessments of potential offtakers accessible from any project site around the globe, and how competitive various hydrogen production technologies will be in serving them.
Our tool currently models delivered prices to over 8,000 industrial facilities, including refineries, ammonia plants, methanol plants, ports, and steel mills (yellow points).
We are currently adding fuelling stations and airports (white points), adding over half a million emerging hydrogen demand locations.
We have a number of other offtaker types queued up for integration, and so please reach out if you have suggestions or simply want to learn about how we source and process this complex data.
If you're a project developer or offtaker navigating these challenges, we're here to help. Please reach out to explore@othersphere.io or schedule a demo to learn more.
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Data center locations today show a moderate skew toward grid regions with lower carbon intensity—but how much does this really influence site selection?
At CERAWeek 2025, data centers were very heavily discussed, including topics such as geopolitics, data sovereignty, monetization opportunities for previously-stranded energy supplies, and the overall uncertainty data centers have introduced into energy demand forecasting.
Climate change factored into conversations on the role of natural gas, nuclear, and geothermal, but global warming was generally just one of the many complexities described by the developers, funders, and policymakers working on the future of compute.
Data center locations today show a moderate skew toward grid regions with lower carbon intensity—but how much does this really influence site selection?
Speed to market, economics, data sovereignty, and end-user latency are some of the most critical factors for developers, operators, and financiers of compute / AI infrastructure.
Focus on carbon intensity of compute will continue to grow however, particularly as policymakers and the public become ever more aware of the rising energy demand and climate impact of data centers.
But as the annual solar PV capacity factor data above shows, today’s data centers show little sun-seeking behavior. Hourly capacity factor data shows a similar pattern.
This makes sense given the challenges created by solar intermittency and limited incentive to experiment with new operating strategies to date.
But in the right locations, this will likely shift going forward due to:
⬡ Falling delivered costs of solar power
⬡ Increasing market and behind-the-meter supply options
⬡ Corporate GHG goals and public attention shaping demand
⬡ Proving out reliable data center operating strategies that take advantage of intermittent power and/or load shifting.
Annual solar PV capacity factor data above shows, today’s data centers show little sun-seeking behavior. Hourly capacity factor data shows a similar pattern.
Please reach out if you would like to learn more about Othersphere, our products, and opportunities to partner in accelerating global industrial decarbonization.
