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CANUS builds and runs PortaDC: a factory-built, liquid-cooled AI data centre that lands on solar and battery sites. We came from the grid, and we build for it.
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We find the power, build the pod, land it and run it. One party answers for the whole stack.
CANUS Technologies Pty Ltd, an Australian company. ACN 698 333 158.
PortaDC™: a sealed, liquid-cooled AI data centre in a 20 ft or 40 ft vault, built and tested in the factory, craned onto a pad behind the meter at a solar and battery site. Three pods, Pulse, Surge and Forge, each tuned to a workload.
FrontierGate™ holds the host's power boundary in milliseconds. LARUS AI™ holds the operating record: contracts, conditions, telemetry and inspections, in one signed record every party can read.
You bring the GPUs. We operate, monitor and maintain every pod, and meter every GPU and every watt.
In May 2026 CANUS lodged a formal submission into the AEMC's ERC0394 rule change on National Electricity Market access standards, on how large AI compute connections should be evidenced and checked.
Three Australian provisional patent applications filed, covering the independent verification of AI compute capacity, its continuous verification in operation, and its conversion into settlement-grade assurance.
Five company-authored papers on evidence for AI compute, published in full, fingerprinted and independently timestamped.
We find the power.We build the pod. We run it.
One founder speaks for the company. The full roster is disclosed to commercial and institutional counterparties under NDA.
Founder & Managing Director
Australian power origination, BESS and critical power infrastructure.
Named under NDA
19+ years hyperscale OT · 1.6+ GW delivered across AWS, STACK Infrastructure & Schneider Electric
Co-founder and Chief OT Architect
Switchgear, liquid cooling, automation, commissioning and OT systems.
Advisory
Board & commercial advisory
Former ANZ Chief Executive Officer of a global Tier-1 IT and data centre operator. Enterprise, government and mission-critical infrastructure scale-up.
Fleet finance advisory
Founding executive of a global credit rating agency. Securitisation, fleet credit criteria development and SPV governance.
Engineering & delivery operations
Active · Sydney
Engineers and validates FrontierGate™, Solar-Sponge™ and the LARUS AI™ telemetry stack before any pod reaches a site.
Active · OEM partner
Hull, cooling plant and heat-rejection module built by Tier-1 fabrication partners to CANUS specification, with witnessed factory acceptance testing before shipment.
Active · Sydney spine
Sydney integration of the Australian-certified switchboard, revenue-grade boundary metering, fire detection and clean-agent suppression before the pod leaves for site.
Active · Field ops
Pad, tie-in, statutory electrical certification and full-load site acceptance testing, taking each pod from pad to powered racks on a 120-day target from order.
The full roster is provided directly to qualified counterparties and investors under NDA.
“AI compute is the biggest new load the grid has ever taken on. We came from the grid. The answer was never going to be another hall in the city.”
So we took the data centre apart and put it back together as one machine that fits in a container. It is built where factories are good at building things, tested before it ships, craned onto a pad where the power already is, and run by the people who built it. When a customer needs more, we add a pod.
We find the power, we build the pod, we run it, and we answer for all of it. That's the whole company.
The founders · CANUS Technologies
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