PowerDrive Thermal noted that Governor Abbott ordered ERCOT to audit every large-load project in its interconnection queue, covering 474.7 gigawatts across over 1,800 projects.

AI infrastructure is power constrained. Grid connections take 3-7 years. Behind-the-meter generation is the default. But at every prime-power data center, up to 16-30% of generator output goes to cooling instead of compute. In a power-constrained world, that's stranded capacity. PowerDrive Thermal is building critical cooling infrastructure that converts generator waste heat into cooling capacity — freeing power for revenue-generating compute. No additional fuel. The fastest path to more megawatts per site. * Technology development backed by a decade of federally funded R&D (DOE, ARPA-E, DOD) * Chevron Studio scale-up program * Schneider Electric Ventures Accelerator Cohort 2

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