Group · About
Who we are
Xalant is three companies on one site — Edge, Power and Communications — formed to put compute where the demand is, with the power and the backhaul it needs already on the pad.
Values
Four values, and the design rules they turn into.
Clean
Generation on the site itself, on a ladder that is designed to end in firm, low-carbon baseload rather than a diesel yard.
Access
Compute sited next to the demand and the power, in markets the centralized core has priced out or queued up.
Yield
A site is sized with headroom, and the headroom — power and gateway capacity both — is planned to be offered locally.
Communities
The places that need a data centre least on paper and most in practice: rural, industrial and under-connected.
The case
What we do, where the advantage is, and what it is for.
What we do
Xalant is a vertically integrated edge platform: the site, the generation sized for it, the satellite backhaul designed to reach it and the compute that earns from it — drawn and contracted as one thing rather than as four procurements.
Our advantage
Four design rules, and no claim beyond them: demand comes from inside the Eight Galaxies family before it comes from anywhere else; no site depends on a grid interconnection; every site is designed to be connected by satellite before any trench is dug; and the halls are factory-built, so the long pole is the pad and not the building.
The opportunity
AI and Web3 demand is arriving in places where grid capacity is queued and fibre is thin. A campus that brings its own power and its own backhaul can be sited on that demand instead of waiting behind it.
Team
The founding team.
These rows are placeholders carried over from the previous site and marked as such. Titles, biographies and photographs are confirmed with each person before launch; nothing here is published as fact until they are.
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Mark Chester
Co-Founder
Placeholder rowMark has close to 40 years of experiences leading IT and consulting businesses in infrastructure and hosting demands.
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Dru Mundorff
Co-Founder
Placeholder rowDru is the co-founder
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Johnathan Stanley
tea runner
Placeholder rowJohnathan has has decades of progressive experiences in teas, he began his career learning to drink tea in sippy cups, progressed over the years into a tea maker and today serves tea to the executes on request
Family
Eight Galaxies · Where Xalant sits
Part of a family, not a standalone.
Xalant is an entity under Eight Galaxies LLC, alongside the Ultra brand — Ultra Kingdoms, Ultra Ads and Ultra Data — and Cyber Ape Yacht Club.
The family relationships and the technology references are listed on the ecosystem page.
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Talk to Xalant
Bring a use case. Xalant is designed to bring the site, the power, the backhaul and the compute as one contract.
Site and energy partners, enterprise and AI workloads, local providers and communities — in the four pipeline markets, or in a geography that is being targeted next.