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Tonomia Inc. · AI Factory · Power & Infrastructure

200 MW AI Factory
I-15 Corridor, Clark County (NV)

Compare Reciprocating Engines, Gas Turbines, and SOFC + H₂ across NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 or AMD MI355X architectures — including full recurring cost stack (SW orchestration, fiber, storage) and a 5-year P&L projection.

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Nevada · Gas $4.5/MMBtu · Corp Tax 0%
I-15 Corridor, Clark County
Near Kern River Gas & Questar pipelines · Las Vegas metro
Recip. Engines 10×20 MW · 44% eff.
Gas Turbines Simple-Cycle · 38%
SOFC + H₂ NG→H₂ SMR · 60%
NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 · 72/rack · 125 kW · $35M/MW
AMD MI355X ×64 · 64/rack · 125 kW · $25M/MW
200 MW
95%
$4.5
10 yrs
15 yrs
20 yrs
GPU Lifetime: 5 years (AI CAPEX amort.)
SW Orchestration: $2,000/GPU/yr
Optical Fiber: $30k/MW/month
Storage: $0.05/GPU/month
CPU: Included in GPU cost

Scale & Capacity

IT Load
200
MW
Total Racks
GPU racks
Total GPUs
compute units
Annual GPU-hrs
at utilization
Elec. Efficiency
% (chain)
Sell Price
/GPU·hr

Power Infrastructure CAPEX

Component ⬡ Engines ⬡ Turbines ⬡ SOFC+H₂
Generation Units
Balance of Plant
SMR / H₂ Plant
Gas Interconnect
Total Power CAPEX
$/kW installed

GPU-Hour Cost vs Revenue — All 3 Technologies

Cost bars vs sell price line GPU lifetime: 5 yrs · Sell price fixed by GPU arch.
⬡ Recip. Engines
⬡ Gas Turbines
⬡ SOFC + H₂
CAPEX amort.
Fuel/Power
SW + Fiber + Storage
Staff + Maint.

Cost & Revenue Waterfall — Recip. Engines

$Annual revenue (sell price × GPU-hrs)
AI CAPEX amort. (5 yr GPU lifetime)
Energy CAPEX amort.
Fuel / power cost
SW orchestration ($2k/GPU/yr)
Optical fiber ($30k/MW/month)
Storage ($0.05/GPU/month)
Staff, cooling & maintenance
NET ANNUAL P&L (after amort.)

CAPEX Breakdown

Generation Units
Balance of Plant
Gas Interconnect
AI Infrastructure
SW Orchestration (5yr)
TOTAL CAPEX
CAPEX/GPU:  ·  AI CAPEX/MW:

Tonomia vs Other DC / Prefab Solutions

⬡ Tonomia
Engines + MI355X
⬡ Tonomia
Engines + NVL72
⬡ Prefab
AMD MI355X
⬡ Prefab
NVIDIA GB300
AI CAPEX / MW $25M $35M $35M / MW $47M / MW
Total AI CAPEX
Energy Infra CAPEX Grid-connected
(utility tariff)
Grid-connected
(utility tariff)
Total CAPEX
CAPEX / GPU
Total GPUs
Power Model On-site gen.
sovereign
On-site gen.
sovereign
Grid tariff
~$0.08/kWh
Grid tariff
~$0.08/kWh
Sell Price $2.90/hr $4.10/hr $2.90/hr $4.10/hr
★ Cost / GPU·hr
★ Margin / GPU·hr

5-Year Financial Summary

Recip. Engines
Line Item Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 55-Yr Total

Full 3-Technology Comparison

Metric ⬡ Recip. Engines ⬡ Gas Turbines ⬡ SOFC + H₂

Annual Economics (Yr 1)

Gross Revenue
at sell price
Total OPEX
incl. all recurring
Fuel Cost
$/year
SW + Fiber + Storage
annual recurring
EBITDA
before amort.
Net P&L
after all amort.

Deployment Timeline

Phase 1
Site & Permits
Phase 2 ‖
Gas Interconnect
Phase 3
Manufacturing
Phase 4
Install & Comm.
Total
First Power

Technology Breakdown

Engines Turbines SOFC+H₂
CAPEX
Generation Units
Balance of Plant
Gas Interconnect
⟶ Power CAPEX
Sub Total Power
★ Total CAPEX
Annual OPEX
Fuel Cost
★ Total OPEX
Annual Profit
Revenue
EBITDA
★ Net P&L (after tax)
Cost/GPU·hr
Margin/GPU·hr