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By: Oliver Hawthorne
AI and HPC workloads crave more compute. But the real barrier isn’t demand—it’s getting power to data centers quickly. For sub-10MW facilities, grid-dependent builds are too slow. That’s the gap ROMA Green Finance is targeting with its latest move.
On June 15, 2026, ROMA announced a non-binding letter of intent. It will invest US$15 million for a 5% stake in BlueFlare Group Holdings. This is ROMA’s first investment under its new AI/HPC infrastructure vertical, launched on June 12, 2026. BlueFlare uses behind-the-meter natural gas generation to power its data centers. Its pipeline includes a pending 10MW site for AVAX One and plans for sub-10MW centers across Western Canada.
BlueFlare’s model skips grid delays. It uses stranded natural gas resources to energize facilities fast. ROMA’s capital will fund this buildout. For the industry, smaller distributed data centers could become the norm for AI workloads. As grid capacity struggles to keep up, firms like BlueFlare will own the sub-10MW segment. ROMA’s shift from ESG advisory to direct infrastructure plays signals where capital flows next: solving AI’s power bottleneck.
Author bio: Oliver Hawthorne, Principal Correspondent at an international technology review, covers data center infrastructure and AI compute trends.
