American Terawatt

American Terawatt is building America's next-generation national High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission network, specifically engineered to serve the power-hungry demands of large industrial loads - including AI data centers, chip fabrication plants, factories, refineries, and electric logistics operations. Unlike traditional grid infrastructure, the company's 525kV multi-terminal DC-to-DC transmission network is designed from the ground up to deliver power at gigawatt scale directly to industrial end users, bypassing the congestion, interconnection queues, and inefficiencies of the aging AC grid. With a target of 4 GW of capacity by 2028 and 14 GW by 2030, American Terawatt is positioning itself as a critical backbone for the country's industrial and AI renaissance.

The company's platform integrates off-grid and behind-the-meter power generation, energy storage systems, proprietary site-selection technology, and fast-track commissioning methods. This end-to-end systems integration approach allows data center operators and AI compute providers to secure reliable, scalable power and bring new facilities online significantly faster than through traditional utility interconnection paths. By combining HVDC transmission expertise (including talent from Siemens Energy) with a software-driven approach to site selection and deployment, American Terawatt addresses what it views as the single greatest bottleneck to U.S. competitiveness in AI: access to power.

American Terawatt is strategically significant to the U.S. energy supply chain because it directly tackles the transmission gap that threatens to slow down AI infrastructure buildout, semiconductor manufacturing, and industrial reshoring. The U.S. grid was not designed for the concentrated, multi-hundred-megawatt loads now required by hyperscale AI training clusters and advanced fabs. By building a parallel, purpose-built HVDC network, the company can unlock stranded generation capacity, reduce grid congestion, and accelerate time-to-power for critical national infrastructure - without waiting for multi-decade traditional utility grid upgrades.