Expertise
You shouldn’t have to become a power company to run a data center.
Solving the power problem for data centers requires deep expertise across land, generation, transmission, permitting, fuel supply, and regulatory navigation. That team takes years to build. Ours already exists — forged over 15+ years at industry leaders such as Google, Microsoft, McKinsey, Vogtle, RWE, T5, Bechtel, and Competitive Power Ventures.
Our mission is to make power the easiest part of your data center. Every major advancement in AI, cloud computing, and digital services depends on one thing: reliable, affordable, abundant power. Takanock exists so that you can access that power without becoming an energy company yourself — in the Tier 1 markets where demand is greatest, and constraints are most acute.
Most companies in this space come from the natural gas industry and arrive looking for a nail to hit with their hammer. We started somewhere different. We looked at the nail—the actual problem operators are trying to solve—and asked what the best hammer available today actually is. Right now, that’s natural gas. But we got there by reasoning forward, not by working backward from what we already knew how to sell.
Leadership team
Ken Davies
Founder & CEO
Craig McKesson
Chief Commercial Officer
Kevin Kroll
Chief Operations Officer
Mike Carite
Chief Financial Officer
Adam Smith
General Counsel
Cam Brown
Chief Development Officer
We do it all, from groundbreaking to grid connection.
Our development and construction teams are already moving dirt, pouring foundations, and staging equipment across our Tier 1 pipeline.
Experience
200+
Collective years of energy development experience
We bring decades of power and data center expertise.
Capacity Delivered
10,000+
MW
We bring gigawatts of proven delivery.
Projects Completed
130+
Utility scale projects
We bring vast experience across our team's energy & infrastructure careers.
FAQ
Most providers solve one piece of the puzzle. Takanock combines energy-market expertise, land development, permitting, and engineering into a single, permanent solution. Our team has decades of experience solving these exact infrastructure challenges, and our combined expertise across technology and energy delivers results customers can depend on.
Regulators increasingly require that new large loads, like data centers, bring net-new generation onto the system rather than simply drawing down existing capacity to avoid driving up costs for other ratepayers. Takanock is built around that principle: we understand and adhere to both public power and investor-owned utility rate-making practices, and we structure our projects so utilities are never asked to take on additional cost or risk.
While Takanock is a young company, its leadership team isn't new to this work. The founding team previously built Birch Infrastructure and Rowan Digital, deploying over $3 billion in energy infrastructure, and includes the architects of the industry’s first wholesale renewable power purchase agreement. Takanock’s first project applies that same proven playbook to natural gas-backed power.
We design our projects to sit “in front of the meter,” so we're not competing with utilities — we're partnering with them. Our on-site generation can offset peak demand and relieve pressure on the local grid, while utilities continue to be paid in full for the transmission and distribution services they provide.
Power Solutions