Azimuth Renewables wasn't a name most people in Moss Bluff had much reason to know.

Now it controls an option to purchase more than 1,100 acres north of Coffey Road, between Paul White Road and North Perkins Ferry Road, while it decides whether that land can support a data center.

That's enough reason to open the file.

The company is based in St. Louis. Its history isn't in data centers. It's in utility-scale solar: finding land, securing control of it, working through the electrical and regulatory problems, developing projects and, in some cases, selling those projects to somebody else.

Azimuth calls itself a full-service solar energy development company with a nationwide reach. Its website says it currently has more than 3.6 gigawatts of solar in late-stage development.

The Moss Bluff project is something different.

And it appears to be part of a deliberate move into data centers.

Start with the solar business

Azimuth's public project list isn't enormous. The projects themselves are.

Its portfolio includes Earp Solar in Illinois, Altona Solar in Missouri, Citrine Solar in Missouri, Envoy Solar in Missouri, Kimmel Road Solar in Illinois, Lapis Solar in Missouri, Richland Township Solar in Illinois and Salt Creek Township Solar in Illinois.

Most are measured in tens of megawatts.

Earp, for example, covers 229 acres in Warren County, Illinois, and was developed in partnership with Birch Creek. Azimuth lists it at between 35 and 49 MW.

Kimmel Road is a 50 MW Illinois project. Azimuth developed it. Birch Creek Development acquired it.

That last part is worth remembering when looking at Moss Bluff.

Azimuth doesn't necessarily have to own the thing at the end.

Build it far enough to sell it

In March 2022, CohnReznick Capital announced that it had advised Azimuth on the sale of a 300 MW portfolio of late-stage solar projects to Birch Creek Development.

Seven projects changed hands.

At the time, CohnReznick described Azimuth as a full-service solar developer capable of taking projects from origination through construction. It said Azimuth had already transacted on more than 1 GW of utility-scale solar projects nationwide, ranging from 25 MW to more than 200 MW.

David Bunge, Azimuth's president, described Birch Creek as a partner with the experience and resources Azimuth wanted to carry the projects forward.

The deal gives us a useful look at the machinery.

A developer finds the opportunity. It controls the site. It advances the project. It works through land, power, permitting and whatever else stands between an idea and something financeable.

Then the project can stay with the developer.

Or it can become an asset somebody else wants to buy.

That's not speculation about what will happen in Moss Bluff. It's something Azimuth has done before.

David Bunge

The man at the center of the company is David Bunge.

Bunge has spent much of his career in utility-scale renewable development. Before Azimuth, he served as vice president of strategic development at Cypress Creek Renewables.

Azimuth credits him with directly developing more than 1 GW of utility-scale solar projects around the country.

The company he now runs has become comfortable operating in a part of the business most people never see.

The solar panels are the visible part.

Long before those arrive, somebody has to find the dirt.

The land business

Azimuth's website has an entire section written for landowners.

It talks about solar leases, surveys, title diligence, permits and the mechanics of turning private land into a utility-scale energy project. Its glossary even explains title diligence to prospective landowners: figuring out who has a legal claim to the property before an agreement can move forward.

That's mundane work until you're trying to assemble hundreds or thousands of acres.

Then it becomes the project.

Azimuth says its team handles projects from the initial consultation through completion. Its corporate benchmarks claim more than 3.6 GW of late-stage solar development.

The company knows how to get control of land before much of anything is visible from the road.

Which brings us back to Calcasieu Parish.

Then came the data centers

Azimuth is no longer looking only for places to build solar farms.

The company has been recruiting specifically for data-center development, describing a business that begins with finding potential sites and continues through permitting, commercial development and financial close.

The checklist reads differently from the company's solar portfolio.

Power.

Natural gas.

Fiber.

Water.

Transportation.

Zoning.

Environmental constraints.

Land.

A data center needs the dirt, but the dirt is almost the easy part. The valuable site is the one where all those other systems can be made to meet.

Azimuth's development materials also contemplate negotiating purchase options and easements, resolving title and access problems, coordinating with utilities and studying the integration of power generation with data-center infrastructure.

That's a much wider business than the solar farms shown on its homepage.

The website hasn't quite caught up. It still introduces Azimuth with the line, “Solar power that works for your community.”

North of Moss Bluff, the company is looking at something considerably hungrier.

More than 1,100 acres

Azimuth has confirmed that it holds an option to purchase more than 1,100 acres north of Moss Bluff.

The general location is no longer a mystery.

The property is north of Coffey Road, between Paul White Road and North Perkins Ferry Road.

Azimuth says only a fraction of the acreage would actually be occupied by facilities if the project moves forward.

For now, if is doing a lot of work.

The company says the site remains in the evaluation stage. It has not committed to building the data center.

No final operator has been publicly identified.

No electrical demand has been disclosed.

No final footprint has been disclosed.

No water requirement has been disclosed.

No construction schedule has been announced.

No project cost has been announced.

And according to parish officials, no rezoning or variance application has been filed.

What Azimuth has secured is the first thing a developer needs before most of those questions become worth answering:

the right to buy the land.

The parish isn't ready for it either

The property is currently agricultural land.

Calcasieu Parish also finds itself confronting a type of development its existing land-use rules weren't written to handle. Parish officials have said there is currently no ordinance specifically defining or allowing data centers in unincorporated Calcasieu Parish.

So there are two investigations happening at once.

Azimuth is trying to determine whether this piece of North Calcasieu works for a data center.

Calcasieu Parish is trying to determine what a data center should even look like under parish law.

Neither process appears finished.

The land option came first.

So what is Azimuth Renewables?

Calling it a solar company is accurate.

It is also incomplete.

The public record shows a company experienced in finding large development sites, controlling land, advancing utility-scale projects and selling developed energy assets to larger counterparties.

Its own website still leads with solar. Its transaction history shows the development business underneath it.

Now that business has arrived north of Moss Bluff with more than 1,100 acres under option and a different kind of project on the table.

We don't know yet whether the data center gets built.

We don't know who would ultimately operate it if it does.

And we don't know what Azimuth saw in this particular piece of Calcasieu Parish that made it worth tying up more than 1,100 acres.

That last question is the one 337.news is still working on.

Sources & Records

• Azimuth Renewables — Official Website — Company description, St. Louis headquarters, development model and stated 3.6 GW+ late-stage solar pipeline.
• Azimuth Renewables — Projects — Current project portfolio, project locations, capacities and company benchmarks.
• Azimuth Renewables — Leadership — Current company leadership and development team.
• Azimuth Renewables — David Bunge — Bunge's development history, Cypress Creek tenure and stated 1,000+ MW of directly developed utility-scale solar.
• Azimuth Renewables — Resources & FAQ — Land acquisition/development process, title diligence, leases, site-selection considerations and project-development terminology.
• CohnReznick Capital — Azimuth's 300 MW Solar Portfolio Sale — 2022 sale of seven late-stage solar projects to Birch Creek Development. CohnReznick served as Azimuth's sell-side adviser; its transaction records identify the deal as a 300 MWac portfolio sale.
• Scout Clean Energy — Stockton Lake Solar Acquisition — Scout's 2021 acquisition of the 112 MWdc Stockton Lake project from Azimuth and Azimuth's continued development role after the sale.
• Heelstone Renewable Energy — Cypress Pointe Solar Acquisition — August 2026 acquisition of the 188 MWp Cypress Pointe Solar project in Sabine County, Texas. Heelstone says Azimuth developed the project through its early and mid-stage phases and secured full site control.
• KPLC — Proposed Data Center North of Moss Bluff Still in Exploration Stage — Sept. 10, 2026 reporting establishing the 1,100+ acre option, general location, agricultural zoning, lack of a rezoning/variance application and Azimuth's statement that the site remains under evaluation.

About the Author

I’m Dalton Barron, a licensed real estate agent serving Southwest Louisiana.

I spend a lot of time looking at real estate that never makes it into a listing description: ownership records, land assemblages, development plans, servitudes, zoning, infrastructure and the transactions happening before a project becomes public knowledge.

That same work carries over to my clients.

If you're trying to understand a piece of property, what it's worth, what is happening around it, or what the records actually say, bring me the address or parcel. I'll dig into it.

Buying or selling isn't a requirement.

Sometimes you just need somebody willing to look past the listing and into the file.

Dalton Barron
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