Christian Komor's Plan for AI, Jobs and Climate

Christian Komor Unveils SkyCarbon Blueprint to Power AI Data Centers and Create Colorado Jobs

DENVER, CO - 05/26/2026 - Today, leading Independent Candidate for Colorado Governor Christian Komor responded directly to mounting public concern over the recent legislative crisis surrounding attempts by big tech to locate massive artificial intelligence infrastructure in Colorado. As utility grids and water supplies face unprecedented strain and automation sparks fears of the loss of tens of thousands of jobs, Komor unveiled a landmark civic enterprise infrastructure blueprint which the campaign says will mitigate AI water and power needs and replace jobs lost to AI automation in Colorado.

The Growing Challenge of AI Data Centers in Colorado

Under standard industry models, a typical 100-Megawatt (MW) Hyperscale Data Center (HDC)-running up to 50,000 high-end processors-demands staggering amounts of electricity while generating immense amounts of thermal waste. Simultaneously, economists warn that a single “frontier” AI model can silently displace between 15,000 and 30,000 regional white-collar and data-processing roles, while the data center itself creates fewer than 50 permanent local IT and security positions.

To reverse this economic and resource drain, the Komor plan establishes a mandated, closed-loop technical synergy that pairs advanced digital infrastructure directly with environmental remediation and physical manufacturing. Says Komor, “Sometimes when you put two challenges like HDCs and climate change together, they can not only cancel out each other’s deficits, but leave us with an entirely unexpected gift!”

The Technical Synergy: Sourcing Free Energy from AI Workloads

What the campaign is calling its “SkyCarbon Blueprint” hinges on a co-located infrastructure design that integrates standard Hyperscale Data Centers with Direct Air Carbon Removal (DACR) facilities. The campus remains off the civic grid, powering itself with Colorado’s abundant geothermal, wind, and solar energy.

Rather than allowing data centers to release massive heat plumes into the environment, the Komor plan utilizes advanced R-774 liquid immersion cooling (sourced from DACR-recovered CO2) inside the data center to harvest a continuous stream of fluid at 55°C to 60°C directly from the processor gates. This captured thermal energy is piped directly to heat-hungry, co-located DACR facilities next door.

Utilizing solid-sorbent filters specifically engineered for low-temperature regeneration at 65°C, standard, highly efficient industrial heat pumps bridge the tiny 5°C gap. This effectively eliminates the primary economic and energy bottleneck of carbon capture by powering the entire filtration baking process with free, non-stop thermal energy generated by AI workloads.

The Multiplier Solution: Turning Recovered CO2 Into Finished Local Goods

Once captured, the high-purity stream of recycled carbon dioxide (R-CO₂) is piped directly across the lot to the SkyCarbon Production Center (SPC), a dense, on-site manufacturing campus. Here, the R-CO₂ feedstock is immediately fixed into three high-volume, physical product lines. The R-CO2 leaves the facility as solid commercial goods such as fertilizers, biodegradable plastics, building materials, and jet fuel.

By anchoring the SkyCarbon manufacturing hub directly next to the data center, the Komor blueprint unlocks a massive economic chain reaction. A standard standalone data center is an employment desert, creating fewer than 50 localized tech and security roles. By forcing on-site manufacturing, the Komor plan triggers a powerful 6.2x industrial job multiplier-transforming a tiny infrastructure footprint into an engine that generates up to 22,000 direct, indirect, and community-supporting jobs across the region. This integrated approach scales local employment exponentially, taking a site that would normally employ dozens and expanding its regional impact into thousands of livelihoods.

Creating Jobs and Strengthening Colorado’s Economy

"Pure digital infrastructure currently drains our energy grids and automates away local employment without offering a physical safety net in return," said Komor. "Our blueprint shifts the paradigm. We are going to harness the raw physical output of the AI boom to heat our carbon filters for free, return the favor with R-774 which takes the place of massive amounts of water, anchor that carbon into solid manufacturing goods on-site, and turn a threat to our workforce into a generation of blue-collar, green-industrial stability for Colorado communities. This is how we kick off the future-not with more of the same. We don’t need another Hickenlooper encouraging us to drink fracking fluid."

A Vision for Colorado’s AI and Climate Future

Says Komor, “My staff had their knickers in a twist over releasing the SkyCarbon Blueprint now. I said, ‘Great, if Bennet or Weiser steals the plans and happens to win, at least they won’t be coming into office completely unprepared.’ Climate change and HDCs are massive challenges that could end up as game enders or game changers depending on if we have the knowledge to act swiftly and decisively here in 2026.”