Palantir Technologies, Nvidia, and U.S. utility CenterPoint Energy are creating a novel software platform to speed up the construction of new artificial intelligence data centers.

The software system will be named Chain Reaction. It aims to assist companies that are establishing AI data centers, which can use as much power as a small city, with issues related to permitting, supply chain, and construction.

The Chain Reaction system will expand on the collaboration between Palantir and Nvidia, revealed last month, by utilizing AI to address logistical issues for retailers such as Lowe's and other companies.

However, the initiative is more ambitious as it aims to consider supply chain and construction efforts across various types of companies, according to the executives involved in the project. For instance, Nvidia collaborates with chip manufacturing partners such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. CenterPoint aims to acquire permits for and build upgrades to the electrical grid.

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All of these efforts must align promptly for data center initiatives to progress.

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Justin Boitano, a vice president for enterprise AI products at Nvidia, notes, "The supply chain is highly complicated." Every global ecosystem partner is impacted as we develop this rack-scale infrastructure.

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AI can assist because it excels at interpreting data that isn’t always organized within structured corporate software systems. For instance, email exchanges between a company's purchasing department and a supplier could suggest a potential delay that AI can identify and assist in creating a response strategy.

"Regarding the energy firm, the data center builder, the data center manager, the grid controller, and the generation firm, all delays seem to build upon one another, and interdependencies exist throughout," states Tristan Gruska, head of energy infrastructure at Palantir.