A 2026 Gallup survey found that 71% of Americans oppose constructing local data centers for artificial intelligence due to concerns over regional power, water, and grid capacity. Clean energy startup Exowatt has launched its ExoRise powered land initiative, pairing land acquisition with its modular P3 energy platform to establish islanded, renewable-first environments for high-density compute clusters in West Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada. The P3 system uses containerized concentrated solar thermal technology; each factory-built, fully bolted steel 40-foot modular unit utilizes proprietary Fresnel lenses to concentrate sunlight, heating a thermal storage bed composed of domestically sourced sand, dirt, and slag to temperatures reaching 1,000 C. The banked thermal energy is converted back to electricity via an integrated heat engine and linear generator. Each module provides 150 kWh of thermal storage capacity, enabling up to 24 hours of dispatchable output. Siting configurations target a 50% to 70% capacity factor, requiring a land footprint of roughly one acre per megawatt-hour of dispatchable capacity. By operating behind the meter, the configurations comply with IEEE 1547-2018 and UL1741-SB interconnection standards but do not depend on active grid connections. The closed-loop thermal cycle requires no process water for generation cooling.