Strategic Partners

West Virginia based EMS Group provides AppInfra with the deep Appalachian market relationships and on-the-ground origination capability that cannot be built from outside the region. EMS Group principals have generational relationships with many large landowners, each controlling multiple 500+ acre properties identified as priority data center development candidates. EMS Group's regional network is the primary source of AppInfra's proprietary deal flow — converting landowner relationships directly into site options before properties are listed, marketed, or visible to competing capital.

AMP Data Centers is a specialized advisory firm with 30 years of data center experience and a track record including over 1,000 negotiated and closed data center contracts. AMP's services span site selection, utility coordination, fiber feasibility studies, project management, and sales as a service — across powered land, powered shell, and full turnkey data center structures. AMP has transacted over $4 billion in total contract value in the past two years alone via long-term leases with data center operators, hyperscale companies, and AI firms.

As its sales and marketing partner, AMP brings AppInfra direct hyperscaler relationships, transaction execution expertise, and powered land go-to-market strategy — directly aligned with AppInfra's origination and development model.

The Thrasher Group is a team of architecture, engineering, and survey consultants with the experience, integrity, and versatility to get the job done. They plan, design, contract, and manage projects — overseeing everything or helping with a small portion, depending on client needs — all while keeping the end goals in mind.

Thrasher evaluates existing building conditions and potential sites to determine the best use of available land, gathers survey data, and applies GIS base mapping. The firm creates architectural and engineering designs using advanced technology, considers environmental aspects, and conducts materials testing. Thrasher has a dedicated West Virginia based team leading the work for CF2.

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC is a full-service law firm headquartered in Charleston, WV with a specialty cross-function practice dedicated to digital infrastructure. Founded in 1913, the firm brings over a century of Appalachian Basin energy experience, and its Charleston office has been embedded in West Virginia's capital since 1928, serving clients before state government and regulatory bodies across energy, real estate, government affairs, and public finance.

Its government relations practice has successfully lobbied for WV legislation covering natural resource taxation, real estate incentives, and broadband build-out, and has secured multimillion-dollar economic development incentives for industrial clients — directly applicable to HB 2014 entitlement and PSC strategy. On transactions, the firm's dedicated Data Center Team has served as lead counsel on multiple gas-powered and solar data center projects, handling JV structures, project financing, utility interconnection, PPAs, EPC contracts, and FERC regulatory procedures; its energy group has closed deals including a $3.75 billion oil and gas entity sale. No regional firm matches this combination of real estate, reclaimed land, mineral rights, energy infrastructure, data center development, environmental, and WV government relations expertise.

Private dark fiber developer and investment firm focused on middle and long-haul telecommunications infrastructure across North America, with over $1 billion in data center and fiber assets under management. CIP builds to Tier IV standards and brings established relationships with telecom providers, wholesale buyers, and hyperscale users. Its flagship active project is the Blue Ridge Run (BRR) — a 767-mile, all-underground dark fiber route running from Northern Virginia through West Virginia to Huntsville, Alabama, serving telecom carriers, hyperscale providers, and national security agencies.

In partnership with VFE and Appalachia Infra, CIP will extend new long-haul and lateral routes into West Virginia's emerging data center market, delivering connectivity to AI-controlled campuses and co-located hyperscaler sites. Within the platform, CIP serves as network developer and capital partner — originating, financing, and operating the dark fiber infrastructure that positions Appalachia Infra's WV land portfolio at the intersection of two critical connectivity corridors.

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC is a full-service, super-regional law firm serving local, national and international businesses. The firm has nine offices located in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida, and lawyers admitted to practice throughout the country.

Founded in 1966 and headquartered in Kansas City, Lockton is the world's largest privately held independent insurance brokerage, with more than 140 offices worldwide and specialist practices across construction, energy, and real estate.

Lockton handles general insurance and risk management for the platform. The relationship runs through Preet Gill, a senior leader at Lockton and an advisor to Appalachia Infra.

West Virginia based — provides comprehensive infrastructure and site development services to support a wide range of utility and construction projects. Crusader specializes in the construction and maintenance of electric and fiber optic lines, delivering reliable solutions for both new installations and ongoing system upkeep.

In addition to utility line work, Crusader performs clearing, excavation, grading, road construction, and fiber route construction. Crusader is committed to safety, quality, and timely project completion, and takes pride in handling diverse industrial and infrastructure needs from start to finish.

Engineering and design partner for the AppInfra Fiber platform. A Virginia Class A Contractor with over 50 years of combined telecom experience, the firm leads with certified engineering (PE, BICSI, RCDD) across OSP/ISP network design, long-haul backbone design, route feasibility, datacenter conduit systems, easement procurement, ROW acquisition, and GIS/LiDAR/survey.

Express-Tek brings directly relevant project history — datacenter conduit systems for multiple international data centers in Ashburn, long-haul backbone design across the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, and rural broadband design and deployment in Virginia and West Virginia. Within the contractor stack, Express-Tek anchors the pre-construction phase, delivering the engineering packages, ROW documentation, and permitting submittals that enable construction execution at scale.

Primary construction contractor for the AppInfra Fiber platform. Founded in 1977 and headquartered in Louisa, Virginia, S&N is a turn-key infrastructure contractor operating across 12 field offices along the East Coast — including West Virginia — with over 85 million feet of fiber optic cable installed and more than 3 million homes and businesses connected.

Its self-perform scope spans fiber and telecom construction, power distribution construction, gas construction, infrastructure engineering and design, and underground utility locating including GPR — covering every construction discipline active across the Appalachia Infra portfolio. Within the contractor stack, S&N executes the construction phase across all AppInfra and VFE fiber routes, with additional relevance to power distribution work at the WV data center sites and gas construction support for the BTM power program.