TribalPhoenix, LLC
We partner with Tribal Nations to bring the next generation of data centers to the places best prepared to host them, on terms written by the Nations themselves. Rights, power, sites, construction, government affairs and long-term management, delivered by one accountable team.
The Land
Wind on the high plains, heat beneath the desert, water in the Gulf South, and room to build across millions of acres governed by sovereign Nations.
The Name
The phoenix is among the oldest emblems of renewal: the bird that rises, stronger, from what came before. We chose it to describe what this moment can mean for Tribal Nations and for the country.
The Firm
TribalPhoenix secures the rights, concessions, sites, power, construction, political support and long-term management required to establish data centers in partnership with Tribal Nations.
A hyperscale campus touches a remarkable number of interests at once: a Tribal council and its citizens, a developer and its lenders, a utility and a grid operator, federal agencies, state regulators, neighboring counties and elected officials at every level. Most projects fail in the gaps between them. TribalPhoenix exists to close those gaps.
We hold exclusive representation rights with a number of Tribal Nations across the Great Plains, the desert Southwest, California and the Gulf South. For those Nations, we organize the legal, technical, financial and governmental work that turns land and energy into a bankable project. For developers and hyperscale tenants, we present sites that are already diligenced, with sovereign governance, a clear consent process and a realistic path to power.
Our leadership combines the partners of Conway Eader, Attorneys at Law, with Gregory A. Peters, a former NASDAQ-listed CEO and Presidential appointee to the National Infrastructure Advisory Council. Together, our principals have built central office, network and data center facilities in more than 96 countries.
Why Tribal Lands
Tribal Nations combine three things almost nowhere else in the country offers together right now: land at scale, energy and water resources, and a sovereign permitting process that does not run through the state legislatures now passing moratoriums.
Sovereign permitting paired with existing interconnection points can cut years from a conventional timeline, when the national queue averages roughly five years.
Top-tier wind, stranded geothermal baseload that cannot reach the grid economically, and potential federal hydropower allocations. A data center uses power on site, so stranded energy becomes an asset.
Developers need 100 to 2,000+ buildable acres outside hazard zones. Several partner Nations hold contiguous land bases measured in the tens of thousands of acres, or more.
Under the federal HEARTH Act, a Nation writes and enforces its own modern leasing rules for water, environment, labor and taxation.
A Tribal ground lease and Tribal business tax sit outside state and county tax rolls. Developers gain predictable, multi-decade terms a future legislature cannot claw back.
We require closed-loop or air-cooled designs and independent, Tribally controlled metering. The disputes over unmetered water use elsewhere are designed out from the first term sheet.
A ratified, transparent, Nation-governed process is now a financing and offtake prerequisite. It gives tenants the legitimacy a contested rural rezoning cannot.
The Department of Energy's Office of Indian Energy runs a dedicated Tribal Data Center Exploration Cohort with technical assistance and deal review.
The constraint that keeps stranded power off the grid is exactly the condition a data center needs.The TribalPhoenix thesis
Why Now
Water disputes, electricity-rate anger and land-use fights have made data center siting a defining, bipartisan issue of the 2026 cycle. Hyperscale capital is searching for places that can be energized faster than the queue allows.
states have filed data center moratorium bills, and New York has enacted the first statewide permitting moratorium.
data center bills pending across 36 state legislatures, covering ratepayer protection, environmental review and land use.
of voters say they worry data centers will raise their electricity rates.
in hyperscaler and neocloud capital expenditure estimated for 2026, with each of the four largest buyers spending more than $100 billion.
projected U.S. shortfall of data center capacity relative to demand by 2030.
Sources: Good Jobs First; Brookings Institution; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; McKinsey & Company; industry capital expenditure tracking, 2026.
A Solution for Every Stakeholder
Data centers have become a zero-sum fight in too many places. Hosting them on Tribal land, under Tribal rules, turns that fight into an outcome each party can support.
Too many resource deals have treated Nations as passive landlords. We structure every project so the Nation participates as an owner of the power, the revenue and the decisions.
Many counties and towns do not want a hyperscale campus beside their neighborhoods, wells and farmland. They should not have to choose between a 30-year tax giveaway and losing the project to the next county.
Officials in both parties are caught between constituents angry about rates and water, and a national imperative to lead in AI infrastructure. Partnership with Tribal Nations resolves that tension.
We bring developers and hyperscale tenants sites diligenced against the full checklist they use: power, time to energize, cooling, land, fiber, entitlement speed, tax structure, workforce, hazards, financeability and community standing.
Our Relationships
TribalPhoenix holds exclusive representation rights with Tribal Nations across four regions. No two are alike, and we never treat them as interchangeable. Each Nation's role is matched to its land, resources and priorities.
One of the largest land bases in Indian Country, decades of Tribal wind development, and confirmed headroom on an existing federal transmission line.
Reservation lands within one of the nation's strongest untapped geothermal resource areas, where permitted generation sits idle for lack of transmission.
Water-abundant land, proximity to Gulf Coast fiber, decades of complex commercial operations and an approved Tribal leasing ordinance already in force.
Proximity to a growing metro fiber corridor and two decades of Tribal solar and regulatory innovation, suited to a moderate-scale facility or co-development stake.
Potential federal hydropower eligibility, with a clear sequence: the Nation's own drinking-water infrastructure is completed before any commercial project proceeds.
Nations whose land bases cannot host a campus participate through equity, vendor and microgrid roles, land and water advocacy, and leadership in a joint Native Nations consortium.
Partner Nations are described by region and resource profile. Nation names, deal terms and project details are shared only with the consent of each Nation's government. Photographs are representative of each region.
Services
We cover the full life of a project, so no stakeholder falls through the gaps between law firms, consultants, contractors and lobbyists.
Securing the land, energy, water, rights-of-way and easements a project needs, with every affected interest at the table before a site is chosen.
Identifying, assembling and diligencing parcels against the developer checklist, then presenting sites ready to underwrite.
Designing energy-led projects in which the Nation owns generation and sells firm power to the campus, from wind, geothermal or hydropower.
Drafting and certifying HEARTH Act leasing ordinances, Tribal tax codes and water, environmental and labor standards.
Negotiating equity, revenue-share and lease structures, and pairing private capital with federal financing tools.
Engaging federal agencies, Congress, state regulators and local officials to secure approvals, appropriations and policy support.
Overseeing design, procurement and construction of facilities and supporting infrastructure, with resilience engineering specified up front.
Managing the Nation's interest over the life of the asset: compliance, metering, revenue reporting and renewal negotiations.
Supporting councils in briefing citizens openly and conducting ratification votes before any binding commitment.
The TribalPhoenix Standard
The deals that have drawn the sharpest criticism in Indian Country share avoidable flaws. Our standard forecloses each of them in writing, before any exclusivity begins.
A non-binding term sheet first, then a ratification vote of the Nation's citizens before any binding lease, power agreement or easement is signed.
No confidentiality clause may stop a council from briefing its citizens on deal structure, resource use and revenue. Pricing can stay private. The deal itself cannot.
Nations participate through ownership, power sales and revenue share, contracted through Tribal energy entities that protect Tribal government from commercial liability.
Closed-loop or air-cooled cooling as a contract condition, with independent, Tribally controlled, real-time metering of every withdrawal.
Part of every signing bonus funds the Nation's own infrastructure before or alongside construction. A community without safe water is never asked to host a new water user.
Primary terms near 25 years with renewals preserved, decommissioning bonds sized to full remediation, and reversion of land and improvements on default.
How an Engagement Unfolds
Council priorities, land, water, power and fiber reviewed against the full developer checklist.
HEARTH Act ordinance work, federal technical assistance and a common term-sheet framework.
Energy entity design, utility capacity confirmation and federal and congressional engagement.
A competitive process among qualified developers, followed by citizen ratification.
Phased construction of generation, fiber, community infrastructure and the campus.
Audited metering, revenue reporting and renegotiation at each renewal.
Leadership
TribalPhoenix, LLC is led by Gregory A. Peters together with the partners of Conway Eader, Attorneys at Law.
A founder, chairman and CEO with more than 25 years building and scaling infrastructure, telecommunications and technology companies, with business conducted in more than 96 countries.
MBA and MIM, Thunderbird School of Global Management
Founding partner of Conway Eader, focused on corporate formation, business transactions and finance. Justin drafts and negotiates mergers and acquisitions for public and private companies, executes capital raises, and serves as outside general counsel to growing businesses.
J.D. cum laude, University of Georgia School of Law · B.A. Economics magna cum laude, Connecticut College
Founding partner and managing attorney of Conway Eader, leading the firm's dispute practice. Ted has tried matters in state and federal court, handles administrative and arbitration proceedings, and builds intellectual property protection strategies.
J.D. cum laude, University of Georgia School of Law · B.S. Chemistry magna cum laude, University of Mississippi
Our principals have built central office, network and data center facilities in more than 96 countries, including the operation of 42 data centers owned and operated by Internap.
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