Baryonyx has won the right to build two large offshore wind farms in Texas and another one in the Panhandle that in the end could provide up to 3 gigawatts of power for datacenters.

If you haven't heard of the company, don't feel bad. It was just stared in May. The company was formed by experts on energy, large infrastructure projects and datacenter experts from the U.K. In a sense, it is similar to SeaEnergy Renewables, the Scottish company that plans to build wind farms in the North Sea with turbines that are in part based around designs derived from oil platforms. SeaEnergy Renewables execs come from the oil industry.

SeaEnergy, though, is partnering with established companies on its North Sea projects. It looks like Baryonyx will be the lead developer. In that sense, it sounds like Optisolar, the solar company that planned on building solar farms based around solar panels they made themselves. Although Optisolar was a startup and had barely begun to make solar panels, it won massive contracts in Canada and in California. It also secured rights to large tracts of desert land.

Optisolar had fantastic lawyers and connections in administrative state offices, sources have said. The company even got Arnold Schwarzenegger to show up at its factory opening.

Optisolar, of course, went under. First Solar bought the rights to the desert projects.

Baryonyx will be interesting to watch. The company's executives have a lot of experience and, from its success in the Texas auction, it clearly understands the policy framework around alternative energy. But these are big construction projects. Even T. Boone Pickens has had to scale back. So we shall see.