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Instead of building new power plants, the startup is rerouting electricity that already powers older factories and crypto mines to AI datacenters, putting a name on a tradeoff the AI buildout usually leaves implicit.
Teravolt, an AI-power startup pitching "AI Data Centers Built Around Power," is publicly putting a name on a trade the AI buildout usually leaves implicit: the electricity it wants to feed datacenters is electricity that is already powering someone else's factory or Bitcoin mine.
Per The Register's September 14 analysis, the company is openly pitching load redirection over new generation buildout. Teravolt's homepage frames the pitch as building datacenters around existing power, and a separate How It Works page lays out an operating model rather than a one-off announcement. Parallel Spanish-language coverage from DiarioBitcoin characterizes the proposal as repurposing Bitcoin mining farms to meet AI energy demand.
Older industrial customers and crypto-mining sites typically hold firm power contracts on capacity the grid cannot easily grow. Redirecting that load to AI datacenters turns a supply problem into a displacement problem, with manufacturing, metals, chemicals, and mining communities on the losing end.
Teravolt founder Laert Karaashev is publicly attached to the pitch, but the company has not disclosed which legacy sites it has lined up, what compensation displaced customers would receive, or whether their load will be replaced by new generation or simply retired.