Over the past decade, Jordan’s southwestern hillsides were transformed by $813 million in private wind power investments under the ambitious national renewable energy development program. This paper analyzes the transformation of Jordan’s wind power landscapes as exemplary sites of utility-scale renewable development that reveal both the possibilities, and limits, of hybrid renewable land use. The central question that this paper addresses is how new renewable investments reconfigure the distributive politics of the Jordanian state, by focusing on changing patterns of land use and accumulation strategies. At the margins of the wind farms, local herders were able to negotiate usufruct rights to maintain access to grazing lands around the wind turbines. Drawing from sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Jordan, this paper reveals the subtle paradox of toiling in the margins: while hybrid land arrangements sustain rural livelihoods for some groups, this partial amelioration permits the expansion of financial architectures that powerfully redirect channels of revenue and accumulation, creating new challenges around the distributive politics of the Jordanian state. As herders move amidst turbines, deserts become farms and marginal lands become global financial assets, illustrating new spatial transformations at the frontier of renewable finance. By illustrating the dynamics of changing land relations and legal-financial architectures, this paper contributes more broadly to interdisciplinary dialogue around the dynamic social, material, and economic relations that support state-making and state-maintaining in Southwest Asia, and how these relations are evolving through new channels of transnational renewable investment and decarbonization finance.