GreenPlex is a partnership between indoor agriculture, local communities and data-center technology stakeholders — the fusion of three centers of excellence not typically seen side by side. The data center's waste heat warms the greenhouse. The greenhouse gives the data center something it increasingly cannot buy: a welcome in the community. The research center improves the farm, sets standards for a young industry, uses the data center's own computing to do it, and teaches the next generation of workers.
Every edge of the triangle carries value in both directions — heat for goodwill, compute for data, research for yield. That is industrial symbiosis, and the whole is worth more than the parts. GreenOS — a software platform already proven on a working commercial farm — runs the farm, and its siblings EnclaveOS and StackOS extend the same model to the research & learning center and the data center, binding the campus together.
Serial entrepreneur with 30+ years in telecommunications and high-tech. Deep financial, operational, and innovation expertise.
CEO of TrustNetMD • Johns Hopkins KE • CEO of Linguateq • Telenet • GTE • Sprint • MCI • COMSAT
Johns Hopkins Computer Science MS • MBA, American University • BS Mathematics
Hands-on technology solution design
jmay@greenplex.aiGroundbreaking AI/ML researcher and software designer. PhD-level publications on technology and organizational linguistics. Passion for information retrieval meets data analytics: IR + ML.
20+ years designing complex operational, transactional and analytical applications for corporations, government, and universities.
AI Application Design • NLP Conversational Design • Predictive Analytics • Agentic Pipelines • ScikitLearn • Knowledge Workflow Platform Development
This role is responsible for maintaining an authoritative blueprint for technology use on the campus and in the data center, including environmental impact, water quality standards, emissions, carbon impacts, and other tangible and intangible impacts on the local community — its businesses, its students and its quality of life.
Background for this role: software architecture, data center design, power systems, HVAC environmental systems, data network design, AI infrastructure, CPU/GPU cluster computing lifecycle
GreenPlex is a project to unite industry-leading programs for Indoor-Ag, community learning/reskilling, and Green data center service. As such, GreenPlex focuses on one campus at a time — one farm + one community research center + one integrated data center. In contrast, the GreenBridge initiative connects farms and their related facility and automation resources in a network that spans many farms and many GreenPlex instances.
GreenBridge is a CEA industry consortium supported by GreenPlex — a bridge from a single campus to the regional network that makes indoor agriculture dependable at scale, and that puts local growers and local buyers on the same board.
Our mission is to give communities a fair deal when data centers come to town and become a permanent aspect of the local landscape.
GreenPlex is a green living, playing, working campus built to answer the needs of the Citizens, a campus the community specifies. Organizationally, GreenPlex is comprised of formal partnerships between universities, communities, facilities developers, virtual energy providers, collaboration engineers and AI experts.
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The question isn’t whether communities should say yes or no to data centers. The question is why wait for data center developers to tell us what we’re getting.
