Greetings, and welcome to the AirDuel Technologies First Quarter 2026 Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. Please note that this conference is being recorded. It's now my pleasure to turn the call over to your host, Tom Devine, Vice President of Invest Relations and Finance. Thank you. you may begin.

Thank you, and good morning. With me today for our first quarter 2026 earnings call are Matt Jor, Chief Executive Officer, Pat Eilers, Executive Chairman, Brian Barton, Chief Commercialization Officer, and Stephen Pang, Chief Financial Officer. During this call, we will be referring to a presentation, which is available on the webcast platform and on the investor section of our website. I would like to point out that many of the comments made during the prepared remarks and during the Q&A section are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could affect our actual results and plans. Many of these risks are beyond our control and are discussed in more detail in the risk factors and the forward-looking statement sections of our filings with the SEC. Although we believe the expectations expressed are based on reasonable assumptions, they are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially. And now I will turn it over to Matt Jor.

Thanks, Tom. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us for our first quarter 2026 earnings call. On our last earnings call in March, we framed 2025 as the year we built the foundation for commercialization through our initial deployments at our joint venture with GE Vernova, and 2026 as the year we moved from those one-off deployments to productized commercial sales. We are executing against that plan. So far in 2026, we've made disciplined progress on the AirDuel core platform, completed the build of our first AirDuel Prime full-scale system at our Newark, Delaware facility, and continued advancing customer engagements toward commercial pipeline building in 2027 and beyond. Before I describe that progress in more detail, I want to spend a little time on the macro. The water resilience tailwinds we discussed on prior calls have not slowed. They've actually accelerated. Water scarcity is becoming more central to industrial planning every quarter. In recent weeks, multiple hyperscalers have abandoned multibillion-dollar data center projects in the face of community opposition tied to water access. Institutional investors, representing more than a trillion dollars in assets, have pressed those same companies for site-by-site disclosure of their water use. When the largest cloud operators in the world walk away from projects of that scale over water access, the signal to the rest of the market is unmistakable. At least a dozen U.S. states have introduced data center moratorium bills this year, and Bloomberg has documented that roughly two-thirds of the data centers built in the U.S. since 2022 sit in areas already under measurable water stress. Drought, regulatory pressure, and the accelerating water demands of compute and infrastructure are all intensifying, not abating. This is exactly the problem AirJule was built to help solve. Now let's discuss how AirJule fits into this picture, particularly with respect to data centers. We applaud the work the industry has done to drive water consumption down. Closed-loop systems, direct-to-chip cooling, and continuous improvements in water use effectiveness, or WUE, are real progress. The most efficient WUE levels we see today are on the order of 0.1 liters per kilowatt hour at the most advanced hyperscaler facilities. However, these facilities are hundreds of megawatts or even gigawatts in scale. So the absolute volume of water consumed is still substantial and requires significant water permits. Beyond the initial draw to fill the system, there are continuing requirements for closed-loop water replenishment, humidification, and domestic uses. For the millions of gallons of water that even the most efficient data centers still consume, AirJewel can reduce dependence on multiple supply and aquifer access through on-site water generation. Turning back to our progress so far in 2026, on productization, our AirJewel core platform improved performance and durability through systematic optimization of airflow, thermal management, and contactor coating process. The core design is essentially locked. On certification, we've advanced our UL and water quality work to ensure our systems are compliant with the most stringent regulatory standards. Brian will share more on that in just a moment. On our flagship Prime platform, our first full-scale AirDuel Prime system has been built at our Newark, Delaware facility and is now operational. This is a meaningful milestone. The Prime is a system we engineered for scale from day one. and we'll spend more time discussing it shortly. On commercialization, we're seeing strong customer demand across an important range of markets, and Brian will walk through where we are deepening the most active engagements. On the balance sheet, our combined cash position supports our operations through 2027 with no debt, and Stephen will provide more detail in a minute. The bottom line is this. We're on course. We've developed our technology and are now a product company. Our internal organization reflects that with strong product engineering leadership and every work stream aligned to a product roadmap. We are doing this year, what we're doing this year lays the foundation for scaled commercial pipeline building in 2027 and beyond. With that, I'd like to turn it over to Mr. Pat Eilers, our executive chair.

Yeah, thanks, Matt, and good morning, everyone. Before Brian walks through our product and commercial update, I would like to share an update on governance and our progress in the Middle East. As disclosed in our proxy statement filed on April 15th, effective May 28th, 2026, Max Baucus will be stepping down from the Air Jewel Technologies Board of Directors. On behalf of the entire board, I want to thank Max for his service to the company. Max served six terms in the U.S. Senate, representing Montana and served as U.S. ambassador to China. He has been a tremendous director since our formation. He brought a depth of experience in public policy, international affairs, and industrial strategy that has been invaluable as we have built AirJuel into the company it is today. We are grateful for his contributions and wishing well in everything that comes next. I'm also pleased to announce that Stu Porter has assumed the role of lead independent director of the board and will also serve as chair of our nominating in governance committee. Stu has been active and engaged director since the company's formation and his leadership in these new roles will strengthen our governance and support our path to commercialization. Turning to the Middle East, concern about water security in the region continues to grow given the region's dependence on desalination. Air Jewel remains actively engaged with UAE government and regulatory leaders to build awareness of how our technology can bolster water infrastructure resiliency through distributed air jewel placements. UAE leadership has signaled a clear intent to lead on water security through innovative technology, and we believe the air jewel value proposition is a strong fit. Our commercialization path in the Middle East region begins with the initial proof of con-value installations at potential UAE clients. From there, we will plan to scale across the UAE, the broader GCC, and global south markets that can benefit from those reference deployments. Through the balance of 2026, we expect to build AirJewels profile in influential industry and thought leadership gatherings, often in coordination with the Global Climate Finance Council, MASDAR, and the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs. These efforts will lead up to our participation in the UN Water Conference, which will be co-hosted by the UAE in Senegal in Abu Adobe in December, 2026. With that, I'll turn it over to Brian to discuss our product and customer progress.

Thanks, Pat. I want to walk through four areas this morning. Our core platform, which will have two product variants, our first prime build, and our commercial engagements. And then I will close with a brief look at the rest of 2026. Starting with the AirDuel core platform. In 2025, we made a deliberate decision to focus our build activity on the core platform because core and prime share a common sorbent chamber architecture, which means every core deployment also de-risked the path to prime. This year, we have improved the performance and durability of the core system through systematic optimization across three areas, airflow distribution, thermal management, and contractor coding. The first generation core design is now locked. We may make minor dimensional adjustments as we finalize manufacturing, but we're at a form factor that we can scale. We now have updated product spec sheets available on our website at airjeweltech.com, and I would encourage anyone interested in the technical specifications to take a look. We're planning to launch the core platform in two product variants, targeting two distinct markets. The first is the AirDuel Core AWG variant with the target commercialization launch of late 2026. The primary customer focus for Core AWG is the U.S. military and small residential deployments. With the U.S. military, we are collaborating through our existing Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, or CRADA, with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center. The CRADA brings together AirDuel's Waste Heat-to-Water Platform and ERDC's Tactical Water Recovery Research to deliver resilient water supply solutions for forward-deployed personnel. The second variant is the AirDuel Core DH with a target commercial launch in 2027. Core DH is materially the same product as Core AWG, the same hardware, optimized through process configuration and controls for dehumidification application. This variant targets the global installed base of conventional desiccant wheel dehumidification systems for humidity control between 30 and 50 percent relative humidity. I want to spend a moment on the dehumidification opportunity because this is the first time we are presenting concrete performance data publicly. AirJules Metal Organic Framework Sorbent regenerates at 60 to 70 degrees Celsius, compared with 120 to 150 degrees required for conventional desiccant wheels. That difference is fundamental. It enables heat pump-driven regeneration in place of electric reheat or natural gas. Our initial performance data shows up to approximately 40% energy savings versus incumbent desiccant wheel technology in our target operating ranges, and we expect further improvements over the next few quarters leading up to the product launch. Our initial target markets for core DH are dry storage and cold storage facilities operating between 30% and 50% relative humidity. Last year, we announced an MOU with a defense contractor to collaborate on this dehumidification application. This engagement has informed our core DH development, and we expect other markets and applications to follow. Now let me turn it over to AirDuel Prime. As Matt mentioned, we have hit a meaningful milestone with the completion of our first full-scale AirDuel Prime system, which is now operational outdoors at our Newark facility. We will provide a meaningful update on its performance on our next earnings call. The AirDuel Prime has been engineered for scaled manufacturing from day one. The Prime contains 16 vacuum chambers sourced from established suppliers at low cost, with the balance of the bill of materials made up of off-the-shelf components such as valves and pumps. The only custom component is the sorbent-coated contactor, which we are manufacturing in-house. The overall design of Prime is set. Further refinement will be limited to sorbent-level improvements and individual component tuning. All of the work we did across 2025 to optimize core, particularly the thermal management and the airflow, directly informed the prime design, and it's expected to translate it into prime performance. The prime is designed to deliver up to 2,000 liters per day, or less than 200 watt-hours per liter, when paired with low-grade waste heat, with a maximum power draw of just 12.5 kilowatts and configurability across waste heat sources from 60 degrees Celsius and above. Over the next several months, we will continue to optimize this system in Newark. This first prime unit is planned for deployment in Europe as part of our Net Zero Innovation Hub collaboration. We are also building another prime system to serve as our internal showcase unit at our network at our Newark facility, supporting customer demonstrations and proof-of-value engagements throughout the year. Regarding product certification, we will pursue UL certification of the AirDuel systems for electrical components, while water quality certification will be addressed on a case-by-case basis, depending on the customer requirements and their location. And importantly, our products already meet FDA bottled water standards and will be compliant with California water quality standards, which are the most stringent regulatory standards in the United States. We believe that designing for compliance with the most demanding applications positions us well across the rest of our addressable market. Let me turn now to customer engagements that lead to a commercial pipeline in 2027 and beyond. First, hyperscale data centers. As we've talked about previously, AirJule's value proposition for data centers is that we can utilize low-grade waste heat to produce pure distilled water on-site. On-site water generation delivers operational resilience and supports water stewardship and community license that hyperscale operators increasingly require. We're currently working with a leading hyperscale operator on a detailed evaluation of AirDuel Prime's economic and technical performance at discrete data center locations. This work has deepened our understanding of the value that AirJewel can deliver when tethered to waste heat. Building from this understanding, we recently published a white paper articulating AirJewel's economic benefit across both water-cooled and air-cooled data center configurations. AirJewel can help address the water permit constraints for new data center construction by generating distilled water on-site from atmospheric humidity. And given that a 100 megawatt data center can generate $3 to $5 million per day of revenue, air dual CAPEX can be recovered in just days of avoided permit delay. We're also building momentum through the Net Zero Innovation Hub for data centers. Waste heat reuse from data centers has emerged as an important regulatory priority in Europe under the EU Energy Efficiency Directive, and we are in close conversations with the consortium's numbers to address that need. As referenced earlier, our first prime unit is planned for deployment in Europe in conjunction with the Net Zero Innovation Hub to demonstrate AirJewels integration into a data center and its ability to convert waste heat into pure water. Second, residential development. We're deepening a co-development framework with a global partner targeting water-scarce U.S. residential markets in the U.S. Southwest. The Southwest is increasingly an environment in which residential development projects are restricted due to a lack of water security. Our AirDuel platform addresses that constraint directly. And during the first quarter, we completed deployment of an AirDuel core system at the Red Dot Ranch Foundation site in Pescadero, California. The pilot validated off-grid water generation that supports Red Dot Ranch's climate-positive housing development. Third, water delivery and truck's distilled water. The global water distribution market is approximately $50 billion, and in many U.S. markets, distilled water sells for above $1 per gallon, driven not by raw supply, but by the logistics of trucking water from distant wells to the customer. In collaboration with a waste heat partner, AirJoule's waste heat to water economics can result in operating costs below $0.10 per gallon, positioning us favorably in this supply chain. We have early-stage conversations underway with waste heat providers, distributors, and end users about future collaborations. And finally, the Middle East. In January, we announced an exclusive distribution agreement with 10x Investment across six Gulf countries. the UAE, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Kuwait. We are pacing deployment activity to align with regional conditions and the availability of production-ready hardware later in 2026. Putting it all together, we're excited about the opportunities ahead of us. We're seeing growing traction for our data center application, opportunities in the residential development space continue to deepen with our co-development partner, And the launch of our dehumidification product is attracting interest from customers. Through the rest of 2026, we will complete the commissioning of our first prime system at Newark and prepare for its deployment in Europe via the NetZero Innovation Hub. We will deliver our first commercial core systems. We will publish additional dehumidification performance data and build out customer engagements for the core DH variant. And we will continue to build the deployed base and contracted customer relationships that support scaled commercial activity in 2027. With that, I'll turn it over to Stephen for the financial update.

Thank you, Brian. I will walk through our financial results for the first quarter of 2026 and then provide some color on our outlook and liquidity position. Before turning to operational highlights, I do want to address one item in our results. We recorded a non-cash impairment charge of approximately $55 million flowing through our AirDuel JV equity method investment line. This follows last quarter's adjustment, and like that charge, it's accounting-related. Our fair value assessment of the JV investment is ordinarily performed annually, but given the decline in our share price last quarter, we performed an interim assessment. Because the test is measured as of quarter N and our share price was a trough on that date, the assessment resulted in a write-down for the quarter. I would note that our share price has recovered meaningfully since the close of the period. I also want to underscore what's unchanged. This charge has no impact on cash, no impact on the operational performance at the JV, and no impact on our broader commercial trajectory. The JV's technology development, customer pipeline, and execution against milestones continues to track in line with our expectations, as you've heard on this call. Turning to our financial results. For the first quarter, AirDuel Technologies reported net operating expenses of $3.6 million. This is inclusive of $0.8 million in administrative and engineering expenses reimbursed to us by the JV under a statement of work. Our net loss for the quarter is $49.8 million. The primary component below the operating line was the loss from investment in AirDuel JV of $63.1 million, driven primarily by the impairment I mentioned. This is partially offset by a $14.7 million tax benefit. Turning back to the joint venture, the total JV operating expenses for the first quarter was approximately $5.5 million, and the JV received $10 million in capital contributions from Aerodrome Technologies during the quarter to support ongoing productization, manufacturing, and commercial deployment activities. Aerodrome Technologies ended the first quarter with $31.1 million of cash on the balance sheet. Combined cash across the systems with the JV was $35 million with no debt. Our guidance for the full-year 2026 cash spend at the AirDuel Technologies and JV is unchanged from our prior guidance. And our liquidity is sufficient to fund our operations, the JV, and our planned commercial deployments through 2027. Looking ahead, we expect modest pay deployment revenue at the JV during 2026, with more meaningful commercial revenue beginning in 2027 as our core product completes our certifications and our first prime deployments also come online. We maintain strong flexibility in managing our capital position and balance sheet. We'll also remain opportunistic in disciplining and evaluating any financing and strategic opportunities that enhance our balance sheet and also support long-term value creation. With that, I'll pass it back for the Q&A portion of the call.

Thank you. If you'd like to ask a question, please press star 1 on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star 2 if you'd like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. Our first question comes from the line of Amit Dayal with H.C. Wainwright. Please proceed with your question.

Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for taking my questions. So, you know, congrats on, you know, getting the first fully assembled unit ready. My question, I guess, is just, you know, pretty basic, I guess. What will it take now for the customers to potentially pull the trigger on placing orders for these units? Do they need some type of pilot deployment before they place larger orders? I mean, if you could walk us through the sales process from here to potentially getting these deployed in the field.

Thanks, Amit, for the question. We actually see a couple of different ways that customers can convert. Some of them do want to see pilots. Some of them are happy seeing the system operational with real-world performance data. And, of course, there are also customers that are hungry for water, so to speak, that, you know, are eager to move forward as well. So we're having a range of conversations with various different customers, you know, taking them through that process. And every customer is unique in terms of what they need to see in order to pull the trigger.

Understood. Thank you. And then as you sort of, you know, make some tweaks and improvements to the assembled unit, like how much more improvement in performance, et cetera, do you think there is that you could extract from these levels?

Yeah, I'm looking forward to being able to answer that question more fully. With the system just now, you know, becoming operational today, you know, we're looking forward to starting the optimization process and what's called a shakedown of that process so we can really see, you know, the initial performance and then how much further we can drive it with various improvements. Improvements can range from individual component optimization, say, for example, fans and pumps, you know, optimizing their efficiencies, as well as sorbent level changes, which are things such as, like, the thickness or the quantity of sorbent that's in each contactor. So we can expect to see, you know, tweaks and improvements to performance over the coming months, and we'll provide a more meaningful update, you know, on our next quarterly.

Understood. And then just last one, maybe, you know, this fully assembled unit, are you potentially going to place it in a customer site, you know, or are you set improvements?

Yeah, good question. We will discuss the details of this unit's deployment in a future call. We haven't disclosed or communicated the specifics around that, but it will be deployed.

Thank you, guys. That's all I have.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Jeffrey Campbell with Seaport Research Partners. Please proceed with your question.

Good morning, and congratulations on all the work and the developments. I guess my first question is, now that the core and the prime designs are stable, can you provide some color on your roadmap to reduce unit costs?

Yeah, thanks, Jeff. The primary activities on reduction of unit costs are early occurring throughout the remainder of 2026. And these are kind of similar to my previous comment. things like finding the most cost-effective and quality and efficient pumps and fans, as well as some other kind of components that are throughout the system. So that work has begun for core and is beginning for prime. And we anticipate to be able to move substantially through this process over the coming quarters, leading up to the launch of the core AWG system at the end of the year, and then, you know, fully completing that process, obviously, before the launch of the prime and the DH unit. So we'll provide a more meaningful update as we move through that. It will take time to validate, you know, quality and performance of the different components we have inbound, but that's substantially the bulk of the activity.

And as long as we're at it, I thought I'd ask, is this assortment that you want to use now stable as well, or do you still look at other MOFs perhaps maybe from research that's happening at GIF?

Yeah, we're exploring alternative MOFs within the standard research kind of pipeline so that we're aware fully with all sorbents is, you know, MOFs and non-MOFs that can have an impact on our core performance. I mean, I'd like to say we're MOF agnostic and we want the best technology in our product as possible. But today, the sorbent that we've scaled and is available in large quantities at a cost-effective price, it's performing very well, and, you know, it's setting the benchmark for us in terms of any other material would have to deliver, you know, substantial performance to validate, you know, its position in a variant of the product.

Maybe it's a little bit early, but probably not the way you guys look ahead. I'm just wondering if you could tell us what kind of planning or working you're doing towards the contract manufacturing shift in 2028. And are you still targeting that year? And when in the year do you expect that to begin to really ramp up?

Yeah, we've had the initial conversations with contract manufacturing assembly houses, so to speak. And as we've shared on, you know, previous calls and materials, our system is largely off-the-shelf components. And so, you know, there are assembly houses or, you know, contract manufacturing partners that are perfectly positioned to take our assembly instructions and scale to provide the volumes of the primes and cores that we need. So we've begun those conversations where we're, of course, not ready to disclose any details around the maturity, but we are still planning for, you know, when that will happen so that we can be prepared. 2028 sounds right in terms of, like, the, you know, the volume scale that we're anticipating and into future years. But we're really, you know, leading with a customer pull in terms of, you know, volume and then capability to meet that volume will match.

Yeah, that's enough. I'll take the rest of them offline and give it back to the queue. Thanks, John.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Alex Furman with Lucid Capital Markets. Please proceed with your question.

Hey, guys, thanks very much for taking my question, and congratulations on all the progress that you're making towards commercialization. You know, now that you've got the core design essentially locked here, can you tell us what still needs to be done here to finalize the design for Prime? It sounds like the underlying technology behind the two systems is essentially the same. Are you hoping to have a better sense of how core performs in the field and then use some of those insights to tweak the final design for prime?

Yeah, thanks, Alex, for the question. You know, substantially all the engineering was completed through the core because effectively it's the same sorbent chamber architecture that we just put 16 sorbent chambers into. And, you know, moving forward with the prime, then we'll be optimizing that core engineering design. So we don't see any substantial engineering modifications. There could be things here as we start to shake down the system, but moving forward, core will not really inform prime. We have prime now in our hands, and so we'll start the shakedown and optimization and then treat it independently as it moves forward.

Okay, that's really helpful. And then you mentioned a number of different use cases and end markets on the call. Obviously, military is a big one that could be, you know, commercialized pretty soon here. Data centers are, of course, a big one here as well. You mentioned residential deployment. Where are you kind of seeing the most demand now, and how do you prioritize going after these different end markets? You know, is it fair to assume the AI data center opportunity is, for the most part, tied to the larger prime system?

Yeah, that's a fair assumption, Alex. And we've talked a lot about data centers and wire scarcity and our ability to impact that market segment. And we're having, you know, substantial conversations with that. And I think that there's significant, you know, pull into that direction. You know, one other comment on this is that different markets take different time. Like, there's different regulatory frameworks and different proof points and validations before different markets, you know, will embrace and adopt in a meaningful volume way. You know, for example, data centers are going to move at a different pace than U.S. residential, than U.S. military, you know, than desiccant dehumidification, you know, core DH products, for example. So, we're trying to manage all of those different go-to-market timing dynamics here as well.

So, okay, that's really helpful. Thank you.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Ryan Finkst with Be Ryan Securities. Please proceed with your question.

Hey, good morning, guys. Thanks for taking the questions. Maybe a follow-up to the last one. For the core deployments expected in the fourth quarter, which customer do you think is most likely first to place an order, Or is a better way to think about it, multiple customers are ready and just waiting for the required certifications to be completed?

Yeah, thanks, Ryan. In a lot of ways, the initial core deployments are still positioning customers that are principally interested in Prime, Although there are core customers as well, for example, Core DH, that product is going to go to market through pilot programs and that kind of thing and convert customers on core. We also talked about U.S. military engagement and really providing them with core AWG products. So hopefully that provides some color here. We'll disclose more in terms of who's actually, you know, engaged in due time with, you know, the disclosures we can provide.

Appreciate that. And then could you give us an update on customer interest in the water purchase agreement model and if that's something where we can see an agreement come together in late 26, or is that more of a 2027 event?

Yeah, I think we're all going to take that.

Go ahead.

Yeah, thanks, Brian. Brian has been answering the questions that have come in so far. He's leading our joint venture, and he's also our chief commercial officer, so he's answering a lot of these questions. He's also a Ph.D. in chemistry. So one of the things that these questions denote are you guys are asking about the differentiation between core and prime, and what's really critical to this last question, the water purchase agreement, is the utilization of waste heat. You get a much, much better opportunity when you're actually recovering that waste heat that's available everywhere, and your energetics go down to such a large degree that the levelized cost of water is impacted less than it is when you're out there dehumidifying, because we have a standalone heat pump system for the dehumidification project. So I think that's a really important delineator between core and prime. So I think with respect to the last question, Ryan, on water purchase agreements, I remain most excited about that. And when you use waste heat to drive that cost down, and you also, as Brian talked about in his prepared remarks, you tie that into distribution within a 100-mile radius. There's numbers of sites, whether they're data center or other sites, where waste heat will drive our regeneration costs down and, therefore, water costs down. So I see the water purchase agreements this year coming, you know, at least planning for the, you know, and planning to get the commitments, as opposed to including in parallel, I should say, with equipment sales for the prime. I appreciate that. Yeah, Brian, if you were going to add to that, please. No, thank you, Matt.

Ryan, anything else? Thank you, Ryan.

Thank you. Our final question this morning comes from the line of Sean Milligan with Needham & Company. Please proceed with your question.

Hey, guys. Thanks for taking the questions and all the updates today. Just wanted to touch base on the slides. You have a slide that has the CapEx for AirJewel relative to the CapEx for the data centers for 100 megawatt sighting. I thought that was pretty interesting. Can you kind of talk about, you know, is that sort of the siting density that you're thinking about when you talk about having these discrete conversations with data centers or like would initial sitings be lower and just kind of like trying to get a sense for, is that going to be a standard siting for data centers?

Sean, I think you're asking about the capital size of the deployment of these sites Yeah.

So like this slide that says, you know, one to three percent of total facility build costs, you know, would represent AirDuel CapEx. I guess that's pretty sizable relative to, like, what I was thinking. So, I'm just trying to get a sense for, is that based on, like, siting, like, you mentioned talking to a data center customer with discrete siting opportunities. I'm curious, like, what's informing that sizing that you're giving in that slide?

I see. Thank you for that question, and this is an important topic to be clarified so on the slide here we're mentioning the three to five billion total capex for a 100 megawatt data center what we've done is we've looked at the amount of water that that data center needs in totality and if you replaced all of the water with air dual capex it would be a one to three percent of that total build so you know this is kind of like a worst case or maybe be a best-case scenario in terms of the volume of water that would fit the bill at these types of deployment sizes. So, as you anticipate, like, we're, you know, this would be a very sizable project to replace 100% of a data center's water demand, and I don't anticipate that, you know, out of the gates at any, you know, initial project. Okay.

And then the customer that you're talking to um is it like are the conversations being driven more by water issues where they're citing their data centers or just kind of the ability to get more efficient at the data center and i guess it goes back to just i'm curious you know um how much of this is like where future sites could be opened up versus kind of just getting more efficient at current sites yeah most of our conversations are around new data center builds where they have you know permitting and pushback in water scarce regions right where they they're having you know some trouble securing the permits that are necessary and um you know air jewel comes as a solution to to get the project

back on track and so that's that's kind of where where those conversations live i mean you know you You could anticipate if you're building a data center and you have all the water you need, then you're not our customer. But if there's water scarcity or quality or regional pushback, then those are where we can come in.

Great. Thank you.

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen?

If you don't mind, I'll just add one more comment to Brian's. This is Pat Eilers. So these data centers as well, there's a whole sustainability aspect to it, as well as an insurance opportunity with distributed water. It does provide resiliency and sustainability, which is not lost on many of the hyperscalers as well, even if it were not the primary source. So that's just additional color on the data center opportunity.

Thank you. That concludes today's question and answer session. I'll turn the floor back to Mr. Torr for any final comments.

Thanks, Melissa. Thanks, everyone, for joining us this morning. The first quarter of 2026 was a quarter of disciplined execution against our 2026 objectives that we outlined in March. Our core platform is maturing. Our first prime is built and operational, and we're seeing strong customer demand across a range of markets. I'm super excited that we are scaling our commercial pipeline for 2027 and beyond. The productization of CORE, the prime development in Europe via the Net Zero Innovation Hub, the launch of our dehumidification platform, and the customer engagements Brian walked through this morning all support this exciting path. We really thank you.

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's conference call. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you for your participation.