NURA Infrastructure
Investment follows projects that have firm power and are ready to finance. NURA Infrastructure builds grid-connected data centers at a size Nigeria's grid carries today, proves them in operation, and scales as the grid is reinforced.
Thesis
Generation has never been Nigeria's only challenge: the transmission and distribution networks that carry power to customers need major reinforcement too. Years of underinvestment, aging lines, frequent grid disruptions, a large metering gap and revenue that has not reliably reached the companies running the network have left the system short of what it needs. The government estimates that reliable, round-the-clock supply nationwide requires more than $100 billion of public and private capital, about $20 billion of it for transmission.
Individual projects do not have to wait for that national program. A campus of sixty megawatts or more can connect, but it needs transmission upgrades built for its own load, which add significant capital and time.
A five-megawatt site on an already-connected location uses capacity the grid already carries, so NURA can proceed without new transmission works, and every creditworthy load on the grid strengthens the case for reinforcing it.
Source: Federal Ministry of Power, press conference, Abuja, 25 March 2026.
National grid
~4,500 MW
Nigeria's grid delivers on the order of four to five gigawatts to more than two hundred million people. Every new project either fits within the capacity available at its connection point or brings the upgrades it needs.
Large campus proposal
60 to 100 MW
Campuses at this scale can be built, but each needs transmission work designed for its load, such as new lines, substation capacity and interconnection, planned and paid for with the project. That adds significant capital and can add years to the schedule.
NURA first site
5 MW
Five megawatts on an already-connected site uses capacity the system carries today, with no new transmission works. It can proceed now, be measured and be repeated, and later sites grow larger as they fund their own connections and the grid is reinforced.
In development
Capacity
5 MW
Connection
National grid
Power
Committed
Generator
North South Power
Site
Search area defined
Status
Seeking anchor tenant
North South Power has committed 5 MW from its 600 MW Shiroro hydroelectric concession, contingent on a signed anchor tenant. The tenant is the single unlock: a signed tenancy converts the power commitment, and the project moves.
The search area is defined within the Eko distribution franchise, which serves southern Lagos and the Agbara industrial area of Ogun State, and is restricted to locations already connected to the national grid: an existing building to retrofit, or a purpose-built shell designed with the tenant.
We are putting creditworthy load on the connected grid deliberately. Years of underinvestment and unreliable revenue have left Nigeria's networks under-reinforced, and a long-tenor, creditworthy tenant is the kind of demand that justifies reinforcement. Each operating site strengthens the case for the next.
The design is modular from the outset: one documented electrical, cooling and control specification, so the second site is a procurement exercise rather than a new project. Site details are shared under a non-disclosure agreement.
Delivery
The power, the site and the team are fixed. How the 5 MW is delivered is chosen with the anchor customer. Each step up lowers the commitment a customer must make and raises the capital NURA carries.
Option A
Powered site
Option B
Built to suit
Option C
NURA-operated data center
Option D
NURA cloud and data services
Technology services, from data migration to cloud architecture and AI implementation, sit across all four and can begin before the site is built. The options also combine: a dedicated anchor hall can sit beside colocation, and the site can grow from colocation into cloud services on its own revenue. Under options C and D the grid connection is built for the full 5 MW, and halls and equipment are added only as contracts sign.
For regulated customers, options C and D would be built to a recognized reliability tier with third-party certification, and operated to ISO/IEC 27001 for information security and to PCI DSS where payment card data is hosted.
Scope
We arrange long-term electricity supply at the project level, working directly with licensed generation and distribution partners, so that a site holds firm, competitively priced power before construction begins. Power is the first deliverable, not a connection sought late.
We identify and assemble the site, secure the land position, obtain the consents and permits the project requires, and coordinate interconnection and connectivity with the relevant utilities and carriers.
We structure the project company and the approval path so that lenders can finance it. The power agreement, the land, the permits and the offtake sit inside a ring-fenced vehicle, held at project level.
We introduce the tenant whose commitment funds construction. Where the customer chooses, we also build the facility to an American specification, operate it, and run cloud and data services on it.
Supply chain
The team has sourced directly across the global equipment supply chain, so we know, item by item, the price and lead time an American specification competes against. Every NURA site is built to the same standard.
Position
NURA is an American company with a Nigerian development company, so American partners deal with an American company, and Nigerian regulators, contractors and landowners with a Nigerian one. Each project sits in a ring-fenced project company.
NURA Infrastructure develops and sponsors every site, and builds and operates where the anchor customer chooses. It does not own generation: power is contracted from licensed generation and distribution partners, beginning with North South Power. Construction capital follows signed contracts, from the tenants, operators and lenders who take the long-term positions.
Large campuses are welcome and complementary. They can connect with transmission work built for their load, which takes capital and time; a 5 MW site on today's grid can be their proving ground, and NURA would welcome a role as local development partner to any American-backed campus.
Test
A supply agreement of sufficient tenor and price certainty to underwrite a twenty-year asset.
Land, permits and interconnection held at project level and transferable to the financing vehicle.
A tenant whose covenant a lender will lend against, signed before construction capital is drawn.
A tenant paying in naira is financed in naira, and a tenant paying in dollars in dollars. Debt is sized against signed revenue, and halls are built as contracts sign.
Capability
One team for every layer, from the power agreement to the AI workload: the Nigerian power sector, execution, partnerships, systems architecture and electrical construction. Two members of the team have already designed, built and run a 1 to 2 MW computing facility together.
Founders
Christian Harrison
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Nigerian execution
A dual United States and Nigerian citizen, trained in finance and real estate at the University of Georgia. He began as a credit analyst at the Atlanta headquarters of Ameris Bank, underwriting and pricing risk in construction lending. In Nigeria he has worked across the power sector, on the generation side at a hydroelectric generation company and on the distribution side at Transgrid Enerco. He is based in Abuja.
Emerson Harrison
Co-Founder
Power sector and federal contracting
More than seven years at North South Power, holder of the 600 MW Shiroro hydroelectric concession, and co-founder, with Christian Harrison, of Anthem International, a United States government contracting company. He brings generation experience to the power agreement and supply route, and federal procurement experience to the U.S. programs that fund and finance the work.
Paul Dawson
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Systems and build
A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with graduate work in computer science at the University of Pennsylvania. For more than a decade he has architected production systems in cloud, distributed computing, data and artificial intelligence for federal agencies, Fortune 100 companies and global brands, among them the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Microsoft, Colgate-Palmolive and Warner Media. He designed, built and operated a 1 to 2 MW high-density computing facility in Columbus, Georgia, converted from an industrial warehouse, working directly with the local utility on service and interconnection, and has sourced equipment directly across the global supply chain.
Partnerships and construction
Olufunsho Peters
Director, Strategic Partnerships
Partnerships and transactions
Olufunsho brings corporate finance and corporate development experience from Transgrid Enerco, where he serves as an Analyst, and international business development experience as Executive Vice Chairman of Green Lock FC, where he has led partnerships and transactions across Europe and other global markets. A graduate of St. Bonaventure University in Business Management and a former NCAA Division I athlete, he focuses on building partnerships and scaling businesses across international markets.
Jimmy Minor
Master Electrician
Construction and electrical
Master Electrician and principal of Minor's Electric II, a family-owned licensed electrical contractor serving metropolitan Atlanta since 1978. He led the electrical configuration and build-out of the Columbus, Georgia computing facility, turning an industrial shell into an operating compute installation.
For partners
The packet sets out the first 5 MW site for prospective partners: the power arrangement, the grid connection, the four delivery options, the modular specification, the sequence to commissioning and the terms we are seeking. Site details follow under a non-disclosure agreement.
