A climate problem hiding in plain sight

One file. Three copies.
A climate problem hiding in your cloud.

When you save a file to iCloud, Google Drive and Dropbox, three different companies store the same file in three different data centers — using three times the electricity. Scale that to trillions of files and you get a problem the size of 40 million American homes.

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Today (2024)

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= 40M US homes / year

By 2030

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= 90M US homes / year

Estimated redundancy

~0%

of files held in more than one cloud

Hyperscaler capex · 2026

$0B

top 5 clouds · doubled vs 2025

01 / the problem

Forget terawatt-hours.
Think houses.

Energy numbers in scientific units don't register. Houses do. Here's what the world's data centers actually consume — today, and six years from now.

NOW · 2024measured

American homes — every hour of every day.

The world's data centers already burn more electricity than every home in California, Texas and New York combined. Lights on in all three states, 24/7, just to hold files.

200 squares × 200,000 homes= 40M

PROJECTED · 2030+125%

More than doubles in six years.

By 2030 data centers will use enough power to run every home in Germany, France, the UK, Italy and Spain — at the same time. Five countries' worth of power. Just to store files.

450 squares × 200,000 homes= 90M

What 415 TWh actually looks like

unit: kWh / year

One American home1 year

10,500 kWhbaseline

Electric car1 year driving

4,000 kWh≈ 0.4 homes

Small town10,000 homes

105M kWh= 10K homes

Global data centers2024

415 TWh= 40M homes

Global data centersprojected 2030

945 TWh= 90M homes

02 / the insight

The quiet truth: most of those files are copies.

Here's what happens every time you save a file today — and here's what could happen with SingularVault. Same file. Same access. One-third the energy.

Today: three copies

Today

Every cloud provider keeps its own full copy of your file. Three servers, three sets of electricity, three sets of cooling — for the exact same bytes.

dog.jpg4.2 MB

Cloud A

dog.jpg

4.2 MB · full copy

Cloud B

dog.jpg

4.2 MB · full copy

Cloud C

dog.jpg

4.2 MB · full copy

With SingularVault

The file is stored once, encrypted. Every provider gets a secure reference that points to it — they can serve it to you, but nobody's making extra copies.

dog.jpg4.2 MB

stored once · encrypted

one shared copy

Cloud A

secure pointer

reference

Cloud B

secure pointer

reference

Cloud C

secure pointer

reference

03 / how it works

Three simple ideas. One big change.

You don't need to be a technologist to understand this. The whole concept in plain language.

IDEA_01

Every file gets a fingerprint

Like yours, every file gets a one-of-a-kind ID. Two identical files always produce the same fingerprint — no matter where they are or who uploaded them.

IDEA_02

Store once, point to it forever

Instead of every provider keeping the same book, the book sits on one shelf and everyone else keeps a pointer to it. Same access for you — one copy on the planet.

IDEA_03

Locked with your key

Your file is encrypted before it leaves your device — locked with a key only you hold. The system can recognise a file without ever seeing what's inside. Same privacy, smarter math.

04 / the trajectory

The line keeps going up.

Data-center electricity use, measured in US homes powered. Every year we wait, the number grows — and so does the share spent on redundant copies.

2010

2018

2022

2024

2026*

2030*

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* projected · IEA 2024 · US EIA avg household ~10,500 kWh/yr

05 / two-minute walkthrough

See the problem in two minutes.

Want the technical brief?

A short overview for engineers and reviewers who want to see how the protocol actually works under the hood.

Read technical overview →

06 / roadmap

Three steps to make this real.

This isn't a product yet. It's a vision that needs brilliant people — and patient capital — to build.

Phase 01ACTIVE

Assemble the team

Bring together specialists in security, large-scale storage and data law. Prove feasibility. Publish openly as we go.

Now ongoingTarget: 8 researchers

Phase 02UPCOMING

Build the technology

Develop the core protocol and prove it works. Ship a working demo with measurable energy savings on real files, at real scale.

Year: 2026–27Target: working proof

Phase 03UPCOMING

Partner with the clouds

Work with major cloud providers to adopt the system. Share the cost savings. Collaborate with governments on policy.

Year: 2028+Target: 3 major partners

07 / the opportunity

$690B is going into the cloud this year.
A large share of it pays for duplicates.

Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Oracle have committed $660–690B of capex in 2026 alone — nearly doubling 2025 levels. SingularVault sits directly in the path of that spend.

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Amazon · 2026 committed capex^[1]

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Alphabet / Google · 2026^[1]

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Microsoft · 2026^[1]

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Meta · 2026 (Zuckerberg: $600B by 2028)^[2]

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Oracle · 2026^[1]

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cloud storage market by 2030 · 23% CAGR^[3]

Deduplication is already a proven practice

Inside a single provider, deduplication already delivers 10–20× reductions. We extend the same idea across providers.

MICROSOFT

0×

up to 95% space savings^[4]

ARCSERVE

10:1

90% storage saved · ratios proven^[5]

CONCERTO CLOUD

5.4 PB → 203 TB (NetApp)^[6]

ESG INDUSTRY

of firms report 10–20× reduction^[7]

08 / the economics

A simple model. Real dollars.

Take a large cloud provider with $125B of 2026 capex — a realistic figure for the biggest hyperscalers. Here's what cross-provider deduplication returns, in real dollars, at different realistic ratios.

Deduplication savings · 30%

10% · light30% · conservative60% · aggressive

SAVED / YEAR

$37.5B

= ~12M homes of power freed up

2026 capex without$125.0B

2026 capex with$87.5B

SingularVault fee (5% of savings)$1.88B

Illustrative figures based on 2026 hyperscaler capex projections (Futurum Group, MMCG). Recurring annually at steady state.

09 / pricing & business model

How we turn the protocol into revenue.

A low floor for experimentation, a clean per-TB rail for enterprises, and a revenue share that aligns us directly with the climate outcome.

Per-terabyte licensing

$0 / TB / month

Providers pay a flat per-TB fee vs AWS S3 Standard at ~$23/TB^[8]. They save 30–50% on storage; we take ~10% of the saving.

Provider w/ 100 PB pays $200K/mo
→ saves $15M+ / mo
Clean, predictable rail

Usage-based

$0.000 / API call

SaaS apps and developers pay per dedup lookup. Free for cached / deduplicated hits — so usage scales with value delivered.

App · 10M users × 100 calls/mo
→ $1M MRR from one customer
Bottom-up, viral adoption

Shared savings

0% of savings delivered

We only earn when the customer does. For a single hyperscaler at a 30% savings rate: $22B saved → $1.1B a year to SingularVault from one customer.

Aligned with climate outcome
Natural fit for hyperscalers
Flagship deal structure

10 / investor returns · illustrative

1% of the market. A $21B company.

The math only has to work a little for it to work a lot. Here's a conservative path from seed round to an outsized outcome.

STEP 01 · TAM

$0B

cloud storage market by 2030^[3]

STEP 02 · ADDRESSABLE

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30% dedupable bytes

STEP 03 · CAPTURE 1%

$0.0B

annual revenue · conservative

STEP 04 · 15× MULTIPLE

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valuation · infra SaaS comp

SEED

$0M

24-month runway · research team

SERIES A · 2027

$0M

at Phase 2 demo · working protocol

TARGET RETURN

10–30×

on seed capital · 7-year horizon

Illustrative projection. Comparable infra-SaaS revenue multiples: Snowflake, Cloudflare, Datadog (10–20× at maturity).

// sources

[1] Futurum Group · Hyperscaler 2026 capex commitments · [2] MMCG · Meta 2025 capex ($72.2B) and Zuckerberg's $600B-by-2028 commitment · [3] Statista / Arcserve · Cloud storage market 2030 ($472B · 23% CAGR) · [4] Microsoft Learn · Data Deduplication (up to 95% / 20× reduction) · [5] Arcserve · 90% space savings · 10:1 ratios · [6] Hokstad Consulting · Concerto Cloud case study (5.4 PB → 203 TB) · [7] TechTarget / ESG · industry dedup reduction survey · [8] CloudZero · AWS S3 Standard pricing ($0.021–0.023/GB/mo)

11 / get involved

This problem needs the right people.

Whether you're an engineer who can help solve it, or an investor who can fund the journey — there's a seat at this table.

Specialists

We're looking for people who've spent time on large-scale storage, security and cloud infrastructure. If you've thought about this problem — let's talk.

CryptographyDistributed systemsCloud infrastructureData law

Apply as specialist →

Investors & partners

The data-center market crosses $1 trillion by 2030. A protocol that cuts global storage by even 20% is a generational opportunity — and a real climate impact.

Seed fundingStrategic partnershipClimate tech

Investor inquiry →

One file. Three copies.A climate problem hiding in your cloud.

Forget terawatt-hours.Think houses.

What 415 TWh actually looks like

The quiet truth: most of those files are copies.

Today: three copies

With SingularVault

Three simple ideas. One big change.

Every file gets a fingerprint

Store once, point to it forever

Locked with your key

The line keeps going up.

See the problem in two minutes.

Want the technical brief?

Three steps to make this real.

Assemble the team

Build the technology

Partner with the clouds

$690B is going into the cloud this year.A large share of it pays for duplicates.

Inside a single provider, deduplication already delivers 10–20× reductions. We extend the same idea across providers.

A simple model. Real dollars.

How we turn the protocol into revenue.

1% of the market. A $21B company.

This problem needs the right people.

Specialists

Investors & partners

One file. Three copies.
A climate problem hiding in your cloud.

Forget terawatt-hours.
Think houses.

$690B is going into the cloud this year.
A large share of it pays for duplicates.