Name: Takanock
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We show up before anyone asks us to.

The communities, utilities, and officials who shape what gets built in their backyard don’t owe us anything. We earn our place by engaging early, communicating plainly, and following through on what we say.

A worker in a hard hat and high-visibility jacket walking through a field near transmission towers at sunrise

Power infrastructure at this scale impacts more than the grid. It affects the people who live near it, the officials responsible for it, and the utilities that have to plan around it for decades. We take those relationships as seriously as we take our engineering. The projects that last are the ones built on trust, and trust has to be established long before anyone breaks ground.

Our Values

First call, not last resort.

We don’t show up to community meetings after the opposition forms. We’re there early — talking with local officials, planning boards, and utility partners before a permit application is in front of them. Our goal is to understand what responsible development actually means in each specific place, and to earn the right to build there.

The grid gets stronger when we’re on it.

Takanock operates in front of the meter — by design. There's always a utility-owned connection between us and the customers we serve. That structure protects ratepayers, aligns with public rate-making principles, and turns what could be a grid burden into a grid asset. We coordinate with utilities on long-term infrastructure planning, support their renewable integration strategies, and intend to remain in those relationships twenty years from now.

We say what’s true, not what’s easy.

When we’re developing in a community, the people affected deserve specific, honest answers about scope, operations, emissions, and long-term obligations. We don’t communicate in generalities or hide complexity behind optimistic framing. If something is uncertain, we say it’s uncertain. If an answer isn’t favorable, we give it anyway. That’s what transparent engagement actually looks like.

Good infrastructure leaves a place better off than before.

We think hard about where and how we build. Our projects create skilled local jobs and meaningful tax revenue — without drawing down public infrastructure or shifting costs onto the communities that host us. That’s not a differentiator we brag about. It’s a baseline we hold ourselves to.

We chose natural gas by reasoning forward, not defaulting backward.

We didn’t start with a technology and go looking for problems to solve with it. We started with the actual constraint — the power crisis facing data center operators — and asked what the most responsible, effective solution looks like today, and how it evolves over time. That answer is dispatchable natural gas generation with best-available emission controls, designed from day one to support renewable integration rather than compete with it. We’ll follow the same logic wherever it leads next.

We operate what we build.
That changes how we build it.

Takanock holds and operates its assets across the full project lifecycle. We’re not structuring projects for an exit — we’re building infrastructure we’ll manage for decades. That single fact shapes everything: how we engage with communities, how we handle regulatory commitments, how we design for environmental performance. It’s easy to cut corners when you’re leaving. We’re not leaving.

FAQ

Our projects create skilled jobs and expand the local tax base, while our on-site generation reduces strain on local grids, roads, and infrastructure. We aim to be a responsible neighbor and a long-term partner to the communities where we operate, not just to the customers we serve.

Legacy data center cooling designs are decades old and weren't built with water-stressed regions in mind. Takanock’s sustainable low water use closed loop cooling design was engineered specifically for markets like Phoenix, where water availability is a real constraint — reflecting an up-to-date approach.

Our leadership team has deep roots in renewable energy, including building Google’s first wholesale renewable power purchase agreement and leading Microsoft’s renewable strategy. We also design our projects to support the broader shift toward clean power. By positioning the grid as the primary power source, our customers can continue purchasing renewable energy rather than being forced to run on isolated, always-on fossil generation.

Our designs prioritize lower-emission natural gas over diesel, use the grid as the primary power source whenever possible (which is both cheaper and cleaner than running in full island mode), and include best available emissions-control equipment as standard. We also model expected performance and emissions on an hourly basis so customers can see how a project compares to grid-average emissions over time.

Renewables paired with storage are an important part of the long-term energy mix, but on their own, they can’t yet match the scale and speed that hyperscale AI demand requires today. Emerging technologies like small modular nuclear remain unproven at commercial scale. Natural gas is a proven, available technology that can be deployed quickly and scaled to match demand, with a clear path to lower-emission and alternative fuels — including hydrogen-readiness — as those technologies mature.

Our goal is for data center customers to always pay their own fair share. By bringing our own generation and managing transmission costs directly, we avoid the cross-subsidization that can otherwise land on everyday ratepayers when new, large loads connect to the grid. We’re transparent about how those costs are allocated, and our projects are structured so that our customers — not the public — bear the cost of the power they use.

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Development that works — for operators, for utilities, for communities, for the grid — isn’t a slower version of development. It’s a more durable one.