OFF GRID LABS
OPEN-WEIGHT AI COMPUTE · OWNED, NOT RENTED

Own your AI.

Off Grid Labs builds off-grid AI nodes you own outright — open weights, private data, and infrastructure you control. Intelligence should be inspectable, adaptable, and available wherever the work is.

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// OPEN BY DESIGN

AI should spread. Ownership makes that possible.

Off-grid AI matters because the most valuable systems in your business should not depend on a rented model endpoint or a fragile centralized stack.

Open-weight models let startups, universities, public institutions, and businesses inspect, adapt, and run capable AI on the infrastructure that fits their work.

20,000×
OPEN WEIGHTS
Models you can inspect, adapt, and run yourself.
NO METER
OWNED INFRASTRUCTURE
Capacity you control instead of usage fees that compound.
OWNED
NOT RENTED
Your data, models, and accumulated knowledge stay yours.

So build an open ecosystem: let intelligence diffuse, let people test it, and put it on infrastructure they control. Own the model, own the node, own the upside.

// TECHNOLOGY

Own the box. Open models, resilient infrastructure, and compute in one.

An off-grid AI node you own outright, built for open-weight models. It runs inference and training on dedicated infrastructure under your control — on your site, for your workloads, ready for the model that fits the job.

Own the compute

Accelerated compute you buy once and run forever. Capex you control — not a cloud bill that compounds every month you keep the lights on.

Own the data

Run open-weight models, inference, RAG, and fine-tuning on the box. Your data and the capabilities you build stay under your control.

Own the power

Off-grid infrastructure keeps the node running through grid and internet outages. Private capacity, resilient operations, no cloud landlord. MicrogridModeler.com makes the hourly energy balance, lifecycle cost, and outage assumptions visible before hardware reaches the field.

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OFF-GRID AI NODE · DRIFTLESS-01
SOVEREIGN

The point is operational sovereignty. Off-grid compute rides through outages and dependency failures alike — no cloud landlord, no rented intelligence.

// CONFIGURE

Spec the node you'll own.

Set the workload, the deployment profile, and how long it has to run in the dark. We size the compute, storage, and supporting infrastructure for the node you'll own outright.

WORKLOAD
DEPLOYMENT PROFILE
DARK AUTONOMY
BILL OF MATERIALS ● SIZED
EST. CAPEX · YOURS
// NODE TIERS

Three to own.

Every tier is yours outright. Open the configurator to size one to your workload and deployment needs.

TRAILER TIER 01

FIELD-01

4× GB10 · 512GB unified

One always-warm model plus a private RAG stack for a team — owned, not rented.

CONTAINER TIER 02

STATION

8–16× GB10

Several models, scheduled fine-tuning, and heavier agents — all on your hardware.

MULTI-RACK TIER 03

OUTPOST

Custom build

Site-wide capacity you own, engineered to your footprint and uptime requirements.

// THE NODE PROOF · REAL RUNNING NODE
SITE: DRIFTLESS-01 · VERNON CO., WI ● LIVE
REC ● 43.6°N 90.8°W

We didn't model this on a whiteboard. We built it, hauled it onto a ridge in Wisconsin's Driftless region, and ran it through real winters and real outages. DRIFTLESS-01 is online right now — fiber-connected, resilient, and proving out the exact hardware we build for you to own.

BEN BURGER · FOUNDER
// TEAM

Builders, not landlords.

We're assembling the people who'd rather help you own your AI than rent it back to you — engineers, installers, and operators who build for resilience instead of dependency.

COMING SOON
COMING SOON
COMING SOON
// NEWS

Dispatches from off-grid.

Notes from building an open AI ecosystem. Read the latest field note, then leave your email for the next.

No spam. Just the next dispatch.
TOOLS FROM THE FIELD
JULY 31, 2026 · 7 MIN READ

Before you own the compute, model the power.

MicrogridModeler.com is live: 8,760-hour sizing, dispatch, economics, and failure analysis for remote power—running in the browser.

READ THE FIELD NOTE →
OPEN
WEIGHTS
POINT OF VIEW
JULY 24, 2026 · 6 MIN READ

Open weights, open opportunity.

Why we agree with NVIDIA's case for open-weight AI — and why ownership, competition, and inspectability are now our operating worldview.

READ THE POINT OF VIEW →
ANALYSIS
JUNE 15, 2026 · 6 MIN READ

The Cloud AI Trap: death by a thousand tokens.

Per-seat fees and token meters quietly turn an AI pilot into a seven-figure line item. Here's how owning your AI flips OpEx to CapEx.

READ THE DISPATCH →
FIELD NOTES
JUNE 14, 2026 · 5 MIN READ

Energy, upside-down.

Why renting your intelligence from the cloud is the wrong model — and what owning your AI on your own infrastructure looks like.

READ THE DISPATCH →
// CONTACT

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