Gemini Teo
Part I · Thesis

Routing non-latency-critical U.S., Japan, and Asia-Pacific enterprise workloads into IFC-backed Tier III Nepal facilities.

Managed compute for Biotech, Climate, Materials Science, Genomics, and Industrial AI — at predictable, multi-year hydropower-anchored economics. Every operator we route through holds ISO 27001 and ISO 27701, with APPI, GDPR, and HIPAA mapped to client requirements.

$29M
IFC + Standard Chartered commitment to Nepal data infra (2025)
3,878 MW
Nepal installed capacity · 95% hydropower
50%
Share of 2026 U.S. data center builds delayed or cancelled
33
Enterprise prospects across U.S., Japan, and Asia-Pacific pipeline
Part II · The opportunity

The U.S. grid cannot absorb hyperscale AI demand. Nepal can.

Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon are projected to spend approximately $700B in combined 2026 capex. Transformer lead times in the U.S. now run five years. Eleven gigawatts of announced capacity remains unbuilt.

Gemini Teo exists to relieve that bottleneck for enterprises whose workloads do not require sub-50-millisecond round-trip to North America. We route training runs, batch inference, disaster-recovery, archive, and back-office compute into vetted Tier III facilities in Nepal — where 2,456 MW of surplus hydropower is projected by FY 2025–26.


Part III · Segment focus

Who this is built for.

GT serves U.S., Japan, and Asia-Pacific enterprises, asset-heavy mid-market operators, and institutional buyers whose compute demand has crossed what their existing U.S. infrastructure posture can deliver on lead time, unit economics, or carbon intensity. The fit-pattern is consistent: a technical sponsor with a defined workload profile, a procurement function that writes under Virginia law, and an enterprise governance track record that can clear HIPAA, SOC 2, and GDPR review.

Regulated verticals

Healthcare · Financial services · Insurance

Workloads that need HIPAA BAA, PHI handling, FFIEC-aligned controls, or insurance-grade audit trails. Batch inference, claims analytics, actuarial modeling, model retraining, and archive are the highest-fit profiles.

AI-native operators

Model training and batch inference

Frontier and mid-scale training runs, embeddings generation, synthetic data production, evaluation suites, and batch inference clusters. Sub-50-ms real-time serving is out of scope; everything above that latency threshold is eligible.

Asset-heavy mid-market

Energy · Manufacturing · Logistics

Simulation, digital twin, supply-chain optimization, telemetry archive, predictive maintenance, and disaster recovery. Routed under Saturn Infra and Modeling placement with documented egress and failover pathways.

Part IV · Precedent

U.S. enterprises have sourced technical labor and compute from Nepal for two decades.

The U.S.–Nepal technology corridor is not speculative. It is a mature, audited, regulated pathway already servicing the largest U.S. healthcare, analytics, AI, and fintech operators.

Cotiviti2004 · ~600 engineers · U.S. healthcare analytics
CloudFactory2010 · ~3,860 analysts · $78M funding
Leapfrog2010 · ~450 engineers
Deerwalk2009 · ~350 · Medicare work
Fusemachines2013 · ~500 professionals
LogPoint NepalSIEM · Cybersecurity

Nepal IT exports reached $515M in 2022 with 64% year-over-year growth. Domestic fintech processors F1Soft, eSewa, and Fonepay clear approximately $25B annually — a validation of Nepal's regulated payment and data infrastructure.

Part V · Structural advantage

Why the placement holds.

The thesis rests on four structural facts about the Nepal grid, the Tier III posture, and the regulatory perimeter — each independently observable, each surfacing inside the suitability memo we return to every prospective client.

Workload fit

Non-latency-critical only

Admissibility is governed by latency class, not by price. AI training, batch inference, archive, disaster recovery, back-office, and simulation workloads route well; sub-100 ms consumer-facing serving stays on U.S. soil.

Scope 2

~95% hydropower grid

For sponsors with SEC, California (SB 253 / SB 261), or EU CSRD disclosure obligations, routed workloads produce a measurably cleaner Scope 2 footprint than the U.S. national grid average. Structurally insulated from gas-price volatility on the supply side.

Tier III posture

Concurrently maintainable · 99.982% target

Uptime Institute Tier III partner capacity. Redundant power and cooling paths, maintenance windows that do not require workload shutdown, IFC-backed operator. Independent audit annual.

Capital & regulatory stack

IFC · SCB · FITTA · DIT

$29M IFC + Standard Chartered Bank Nepal anchor. FITTA 2019 foreign investment approval, DIT Directive 2081 listing, Companies Act 2063 incorporation, Nepal Rastra Bank foreign-exchange compliance — every flow papered through institutional channels.

Profile-specific net savings against the client's existing infrastructure baseline — hyperscaler, service provider, colocation, or on-premises — are produced only inside the engagement-specific suitability assessment. No cost stacks, input prices, or blanket savings figures are published on this website.

Saturn Infra and Modeling Pvt. Ltd.

Partner-shared compute capacity — the primary line.

We are the institutional conduit — structuring the partner relationship, the client contract, the compliance envelope, and the workload placement — between U.S., Japan, and Asia-Pacific enterprise demand and Nepal Tier III supply. We do not lease rack space; we deliver completed compute capacity, the way major hyperscalers deliver underlying chip and data-center capacity to enterprises.

Tier III certified partners DFI-backed 3.5 MW anchor 520 racks Kathmandu corridor 95% hydropower

Tier III. Uptime Institute Tier III indicates a concurrently maintainable site infrastructure — every capacity component and distribution path can be removed from service without impacting the IT load. Target availability 99.982%, redundant power and cooling paths, and maintenance windows that do not require workload shutdown.

What we route

The work — non-latency-critical, non-real-time.

Saturn Infra routes specific workload classes that tolerate inter-region latency, asynchronous results, and overnight scheduling. Real-time consumer-facing serving stays on U.S. soil. Below is what is actually placed and how each class is handled.

AI model training

Multi-day GPU jobs

Fine-tuning runs and gradient accumulation across nodes (8–512 H100 / A100 typical). Tolerates 60–250 ms inter-region latency. Egress only at checkpoint cadence (every 4–24h). No real-time inference dependency. Routed under documented checkpoint-restart playbook with cross-region redundancy.

Batch inference at scale

Async scoring

Embedding generation for vector indices, document classification, claims adjudication scoring, vision and OCR pipelines. Asynchronous ingestion. Results returned per SLA window (typical: 4h, 24h, weekly). Watermarked for auditability; per-batch reconciliation with the U.S.-side source of truth.

Archive & long-tail retention

Compliance vaulting

HIPAA 6-year clinical retention, SOX 7-year financial retention, GDPR-aligned data-subject record retention. Immutable WORM storage with geographic separation from production. Quarterly retrieval drill. Encryption at rest under client-held KMS where required.

Disaster recovery

Warm-standby compute

Documented Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) per client runbook. Quarterly failover drill with attested results. DR posture audited annually as part of SOC 2 Type II.

Back-office & internal analytics

Routine non-customer-facing compute

Finance close, regulatory reporting, ETL, BI cubes, internal data warehousing — the workload that consumes most enterprise core. Asynchronous and tolerant of overnight scheduling. Routes under documented egress model with quarterly placement review.

Simulation & scientific compute

Stochastic and parallel workloads

Monte Carlo simulation, stochastic risk models, agent-based simulation, scientific HPC. Predictable batch profile with restart-tolerance. Frequently parallelizable. Routes well to Nepal hydropower infrastructure with no real-time dependency.

Client disclosure policy

Active U.S., Japan, and Asia-Pacific client identities are not published. Engagements are governed by reciprocal non-disclosure agreements with the offshore partner consortium and, in most cases, by explicit client confidentiality preferences. Named references are available under mutual NDA during advanced-stage diligence.

Book of business — defensible ranges

As an institutional-posture disclosure, Saturn Infra's book of business is reported in defensible ranges rather than single-point figures. Current posture: 4–7 workloads under executed MSA; 40–55% anchor capacity committed, representing approximately 1.4–1.9 MW placed load; 10–16 workloads in suitability assessment; 3–5 MW in weighted near-term pipeline. Ranges are refreshed on a quarterly cadence and narrowed during engagement-specific diligence.

Capacity · present and forward

Built by Gemini Teo. Operated by Saturn Infra.

Gemini Teo LLC is the development and capital-structuring vehicle for new Nepal data center capacity. Saturn Infra and Modeling Pvt. Ltd. is the in-country operator and commercial counterparty to U.S., Japan, and Asia-Pacific enterprise clients. This separation preserves U.S. tax, contract, and arbitration posture while placing operating responsibility inside Nepal's regulatory perimeter.

The commercial thesis is to grow from partner-shared capacity through anchor-tenant development to owned Tier III capacity — matching client demand growth and regional capital market maturity.

Present · 2026

3.5 MW anchor · 520 racks

Tier III certified partner capacity in the Kathmandu corridor. 95% hydropower grid. IFC-backed operator. Capacity reserved for placed U.S., Japan, and Asia-Pacific enterprise workloads under multi-year anchor commitments. Operated by Saturn Infra under master services agreement.

Phase 2 · 2027–2029

13 MW pilot build

First purpose-built facility developed by GT with blended capital from Foreign Direct Investment, IFC, and DFC channels, plus anchor-tenant pre-commitments. Tier III target. Operated by Saturn Infra as commercial counterparty.

Phase 3 · 2029+

100 MW Saturn-owned

Tier III campus with senior debt from Standard Chartered and Nabil Bank. Developed by GT. Owned and operated by Saturn Infra. Multi-tenant anchor structure targeted at AI training, batch inference, and disaster recovery.

Phase 4 · 2035+

1–3 GW scale

Multi-gigawatt regional campus footprint. Institutional co-investment. Sovereign and development-finance participation anticipated. Transmission and grid interconnection structured under the Nepal Electricity Authority framework.

Forward-capacity figures reflect commercial intent based on demonstrated pipeline and regulatory posture. Build sequencing is subject to anchor-tenant commitments, capital formation, and regulatory approvals.

Architecture

The routing stack that moves a U.S., Japan, or Asia-Pacific workload to a Nepal Tier III floor.

Every workload Gemini Teo places traverses a documented contract, technical, and compliance stack. The architecture is deliberately boring: proven components, single points of accountability at each hop, and a paper trail that satisfies procurement, security, privacy, and tax review on the U.S. side and Companies Act / FITTA / DIT / NRB review on the Nepal side.

Flow — U.S., Japan, and Asia-Pacific enterprise to Nepal Tier III

  1. Enterprise ingress. Client-owned networks, private endpoints, or carrier-neutral meet-me points in U.S. hyperscale regions.
  2. MSA · DPA envelope. Virginia-law MSA; HIPAA BAA or GDPR SCCs where applicable; Nepal-side DPA under Privacy Act 2075 / Data Protection Act 2082.
  3. GT routing layer. Identity, routing policy, workload suitability check, egress accounting.
  4. Transit. Redundant carrier paths (Mumbai, Singapore, Hong Kong) with 99.9%+ availability targets.
  5. Audit. Monthly operational report, quarterly compliance report, annual independent security audit.

Cross-cutting planes

Identity
Client-federated SSO with short-lived credentials at every hop.
Data
At-rest encryption to FIPS 140-2 / 140-3; in-flight TLS 1.3 minimum.
Compliance
SOC 2 Type II annual · HIPAA BAA · GDPR SCCs + DPA · CCPA / CPRA SPA · Nepal DIT Directive 2081.
Observability
First-party metrics, tamper-evident audit logs, 7-year retention minimum.
Fig. 1 — End-to-end routing diagram
U.S. + Japan + APAC MSA · DPA GT routing Transit Saturn Infra Tier III floor
Fig. 2 — Contract & compliance hierarchy
Contract Identity Data Compliance
Contract
Virginia MSA · HIPAA BAA · GDPR SCCs · CCPA / CPRA SPA · Nepal DPA — the apex narrows to the named engagement.
Identity
Client-federated SSO · short-lived credentials · least-privilege roles.
Data
FIPS 140-2/3 at rest · TLS 1.3 in flight · region pinning · tamper-evident logs.
Compliance
SOC 2 Type II · DIT Directive 2081 · Privacy Act 2075 · Data Protection Act 2082 — the foundation that all three layers above sit on.
Gemini Facility

The Saturn-owned 13 MW pilot.

Gemini Teo is presently in active discussions with the Government of Nepal to secure a proprietary 13 MW Tier III facility on a dedicated site, with the parallel option to co-build with an established Nepal operator. The facility would operate as a Saturn Infra-owned and -operated asset, underwritten by a combination of anchor-tenant pre-commits, FDI approval under FITTA 2019, and senior debt from Nepal commercial banks supported by DFI participation.

The 13 MW proprietary pilot is designed to move Saturn Infra from a partner-capacity posture — placing U.S., Japan, and Asia-Pacific workloads into partner-operated Tier III capacity — to an owned-capacity posture on a controlled site. Site selection criteria include: power-line adjacency, 95%+ hydropower mix, redundant fiber, seismic profile acceptable to Uptime Institute Tier III certification, and water-availability for adiabatic cooling that targets PUE 1.32–1.38.

The Government of Nepal engagement track runs through the Department of Industry (FITTA 2019 foreign direct investment approval), the Department of Information Technology (Data Centre and Cloud Services Directive 2081, Feb 2025), the Investment Board of Nepal where capital thresholds apply, Nepal Rastra Bank (foreign exchange inflow and outflow), and the Office of the Company Registrar (Companies Act 2063 filings). Independent Nepal counsel and auditor sign-off is procured at every stage; no informal commitments are made.

In parallel, GT maintains a documented fallback. If the proprietary site track does not close on acceptable commercial terms, Saturn Infra continues to route U.S., Japan, and Asia-Pacific enterprise workloads into the partner-operated Tier III anchor capacity in the Kathmandu corridor — 3.5 MW, 520 racks, 95% hydropower, DFI-backed partner — under multi-year anchor commitments. The partner-capacity line stands on its own economics and is not contingent on the proprietary facility track.

This section exists so that principals reviewing GT understand two things simultaneously: (1) the upside case — a Saturn-owned 13 MW Tier III pilot inside a well-understood Government of Nepal regulatory corridor, sequenced ahead of the 100 MW Phase 3 build — and (2) the base case — a partner-operated anchor that is already serving routed workloads today. The two-track posture is structural, not aspirational.

Precedent

Hydropower, not hydrocarbons.

Every workload routed through Saturn Infra runs on a Nepal grid that is 95% hydropower. This is not a marketing posture. It is the structural basis on which the entire infrastructure thesis rests.

95%

Hydropower share

Of Nepal's installed generation mix. A fundamentally low-carbon grid — orders of magnitude cleaner than the U.S. national grid average.

2,456 MW

Projected surplus

Nepal hydropower surplus projected by FY 2025–26. This is the headroom that makes compute placement viable at scale.

3,878 MW

Installed capacity

Nepal Electricity Authority figure, 2026. Continues to grow with Upper Tamakoshi, Arun III, and other run-of-river installations.

The carbon argument

U.S. AI compute is overwhelmingly fossil-powered. Nepal's isn't.

Roughly 60% of U.S. electricity in 2025 came from fossil generation. Hyperscale data center expansion in the U.S. has materially slowed the retirement of coal and gas plants, and has accelerated the interconnection of new natural-gas capacity to meet AI demand.

Placing non-latency-critical workloads on a 95% hydropower grid — whose marginal unit is hydroelectric, not natural gas — produces a compute-carbon profile that institutional ESG frameworks can actually underwrite.


For enterprises with Scope 2 and Scope 3 disclosure obligations, Nepal-routed compute is not a workaround. It is the answer.
Community

The technology-corridor compact.

Gemini Teo's presence in Nepal is predicated on building the institutional capacity of the local engineering and compliance workforce. Saturn Infra anchors the enterprise demand and the talent pipeline. The firm commits to annual transparency reports, long-tenured staff retention programs, and local-lawyer reviewed engagement documentation.

The compact extends beyond headcount. We commit to cross-border knowledge transfer: engineering, compliance, and procurement methods used at U.S. institutional scale are transferred to Nepal staff through documented training, paired delivery, and quarterly technical review. Graduates of the program are portable — credentialed to operate at the standard of any U.S. or European enterprise counterparty.

Environmental responsibility is not a marketing layer. The ~95% hydropower mix of the Nepal grid is the structural input to the Scope 2 story; PUE 1.32–1.38 at partner Tier III sites is the structural input to the direct energy story; adiabatic cooling and water-stewardship design are the structural inputs to the water-use story. Each input is independently verifiable in the partner's certification artifacts and in the Nepal Electricity Authority record.

Governance of the compact is two-sided. The U.S. parent accepts institutional accountability to its clients under Virginia law and U.S. regulatory review. The Nepal subsidiaries accept operational accountability to their employees, partners, and regulators under Companies Act 2063, FITTA 2019, DIT Directive 2081, NRB foreign-exchange rules, Privacy Act 2075, and Data Protection Act 2082. Neither side is asked to carry the other's obligations; both are documented.

Knowledge Center

Daily signals on data centers, grid, capital, and policy.

Curated institutional briefing — U.S. grid constraint, hyperscaler capex, Nepal capacity, capital flows. Sourced, dated, and refreshed on a rolling weekly cadence.

Live feed Last refreshed · Weekly
Leadership

Kushal Guragain — Founder.

Kushal Guragain is the founder of Gemini Teo LLC and Saturn Infra and Modeling Pvt. Ltd. He brings a decade-long track record of senior technology and product management leadership across the healthcare and financial services sectors.

He currently holds a Fortune 10 leadership role spearheading agentic AI and U.S. healthcare technology solutions and policy, servicing a large-scale U.S. consumer base in the tens of millions — an operating context that shapes the institutional posture, compliance rigor, and procurement-grade documentation that characterize Gemini Teo engagements.

Kushal Guragain holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of South Florida, a Master of Science in Information Technology and Management, and a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Leadership and Management.


Contact

Begin a conversation.

Gemini Teo responds to substantive inbound from U.S., Japan, and Asia-Pacific enterprise principals, procurement leaders, and allied institutional counterparties. We do not respond to unsolicited vendor outreach.

A single-line reply, indicating profile and workload context, is sufficient to initiate conversations about a two-week suitability assessment.


Preferred introduction channels

GT prefers introductions that carry institutional context. The following channels move fastest:

  • A named procurement, infrastructure, or CFO-delegated lead at a U.S. or Asia-Pacific enterprise.
  • A warm introduction from a mutual DFI, bank, or counsel relationship.
  • A prior client or investor referral identifying the workload profile.
  • A principal-level note at [email protected] stating profile and scale.

We do not respond to unsolicited vendor pitches or generic marketing outreach.

For prospectus requests, mutual NDAs, and initial suitability inquiries.