Independent infrastructure advisory

Independent technical advisory for AI infrastructure.

ArNeil evaluates power, cooling, water, storage, and carbon as one integrated system, so developers, investors, and utilities can find the interface risks before major capital is committed.

25+ yearsAcross chemicals, power, thermal, water, carbon, and digital engineering
$1B+DOE-funded carbon-capture program; founder was technical lead for the front-end engineering scope*
$50M/yrIndustrial decarbonization program monetized into an annual business
200 MWOnsite generation managed within a $300M annual industrial energy program

One decision framework across six interdependent systems.

Industrial infrastructure has traditionally been engineered one discipline at a time. ArNeil evaluates how choices interact, not only whether each subsystem works in isolation, especially during site selection, investment approval, pre-FEED development, and major vendor commitment.

The AI economy requires engineering infrastructure as one system.

Find the seams

The largest risks often sit between disciplines, vendors, and commercial assumptions.

Model the whole system

Technical performance, resilience, schedule, capital, and operating economics evaluated together.

Stay independent

Recommendations are guided by technical merit and the owner's objectives, not by equipment or construction interests.

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Power

Grid supply, onsite generation, fuel, interconnection, and operating strategy.

02

Thermal

Heat rejection, refrigeration, liquid cooling, heat recovery, and efficiency.

03

Water

Source, treatment, reuse, discharge, and water-constrained operation.

04

Storage

Battery, UPS, thermal storage, microgrids, and resilience posture.

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Carbon

Emissions, capture readiness, incentives, and value pathways.

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Controls + Economics

Simulation, digital twins, operating logic, commercial tradeoffs, and risk.

ArNeil Advisory: independent guidance before capital commits.

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Founder-led, fixed-scope engagements designed to complement your engineering team, EPC, utility, legal counsel, and financial advisers, not replace them.

Infrastructure Strategy

Direction-setting for greenfield campuses: site selection, infrastructure master planning, technology posture, and build-versus-buy choices.

Typical output: infrastructure roadmap, technology strategy, executive recommendation, risk framework.

Developers · Owners · Investors

Technical Due Diligence

Independent validation of proposed sites, technologies, vendor claims, and project assumptions before investment, acquisition, or major commercial commitment.

Typical output: technical opinion, assumption challenge, interface-risk review, investment-committee findings.

Investors · Lenders · Acquirers

Integrated Architecture Review Flagship

Evaluation of how power, cooling, water, storage, carbon, controls, economics, and permitting function as one connected system, not just whether each discipline works in isolation.

Typical output: architecture scorecard, interface-risk assessment, alternative concepts, prioritized optimization opportunities.

Developers · Owners · EPC interface

Innovation Architecture

Alternative system concepts when conventional approaches do not deliver the required technical, resilience, environmental, or commercial outcome.

Typical output: concept alternatives, technology screening, development pathway, commercialization considerations.

Owners · Technology partners · OEMs

Carbon Credit & MRV Structuring

Identification, structuring, and monetization of emission-reduction opportunities in industrial facilities, informed by the founder's experience building a carbon-credit program that generated approximately $50M per year in value.

Typical output: credit-opportunity assessment, methodology and MRV pathway, revenue-potential estimate, partner and registry strategy.

Industrial facility owners · Process manufacturers · Investors
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Define the decision

Clarify the project constraints and the consequences of getting it wrong.

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Review the whole system

Evaluate power, thermal, water, carbon, controls, permitting, and economics together.

03

Surface hidden constraints

Identify fragile assumptions, interface risks, and cross-discipline dependencies.

04

Confirm or improve

Confirm the architecture where it is sound; recommend focused changes, or alternatives, where it is not.

Who we work with Data-center developersInfrastructure investorsUtilities and power developersEPC and technology partnersPrivate-equity firmsIndustrial site ownersCooling and water OEMsLNG and energy asset owners

The recommendation is the product.

ArNeil does not manufacture equipment, construct facilities, sell utilities, provide financing, or represent technology vendors. Recommendations rest on technical merit, commercial viability, project risk, and the owner's objectives.

We provide an independent perspective before major commitments; formal design, FEED, permitting, and procurement remain with your project team.

No equipment agenda. Technologies are evaluated on system value, not channel economics.
No construction interest. Cost, scope, and complexity can be challenged without protecting downstream revenue.
No discipline boundary. The review follows the risk across power, cooling, water, carbon, controls, permitting, and economics.
No requirement to invent. A sound architecture is confirmed; novel design is pursued only where it creates material value.

Engineering models and technology development.

A founder-led development track that pairs quantitative modeling with selected system-level concepts at the research, provisional-patent, and early-engineering stages.

ArNeil owns three U.S. provisional patent applications filed in 2026. These concepts are under development and are not yet commercially available.

Integrated energy systems Advanced thermal systems Water independence Carbon systems Storage + resilience Engineering intelligence
Modeling & simulation

Hourly system modeling

8,760-hour power, thermal, and water balance models that test an architecture against real weather, load, and price profiles instead of design-day assumptions.

Process and thermodynamic simulation

Refrigeration cycles, heat integration, and heat-rejection performance evaluated across climates, operating modes, and refrigerant options.

Decision-support tools

Side-by-side comparison of constrained infrastructure architectures on energy, water, carbon, resilience, and lifecycle cost. Digital-twin approaches are under development.

Models are used to support advisory engagements and are not offered as commercial software.

Technical papers and a forthcoming book.

ArNeil's technical publications are in preparation for release in Q1 2027. Advance information is available on request.

Book

Refrigeration Systems for Data Centers (working title)

A practitioner's guide to refrigeration, heat rejection, and thermal architecture for high-density AI infrastructure.

Expected Q1 2027
Available on request
White paper

Applying Industrial Refrigeration Principles to AI Data Centers

A systems-engineering framework for refrigerant selection, refrigeration architecture, and lifecycle cooling strategy.

Expected Q1 2027
Available on request
White paper

Water-Constrained AI Campuses

Water sourcing, reuse, and discharge strategy where freshwater availability is a binding constraint.

Expected Q1 2027
Available on request
Portrait of ArNeil founder Sanjay Dube

Sanjay Dube, PMP

Founder & Principal, ArNeil Energy Solutions

Sanjay Dube is an industrial systems architect, inventor, and technology leader with more than 25 years of experience integrating complex energy, thermal, chemical, water, carbon, storage, controls, and digital systems.

His work connects technology, operations, economics, and infrastructure so that decisions can be evaluated at the system level, and translated into solutions that are practical to build, operate, scale, and commercialize.

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GE Technology FellowFormer, GE Power
DOE advisory roleIndustrial Advisory Board member
30+ U.S. patentsLead or sole inventor*
PMP · Six SigmaGreen Belt · Stanford PM credential

Schedule an executive briefing.

A focused 20-minute introductory conversation to understand the infrastructure decision, identify where system interfaces may carry hidden risk, and determine whether an independent review would add value.

sanjay.dube@arneilenergy.comMadison, Alabama

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