Posted on 12/04/2025 2:05:15 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: PLTR) today unveiled Chain Reaction, the operating system for American AI infrastructure.
The bottleneck to AI innovation is no longer algorithms; it is power and compute. America is at an inflection point in the energy infrastructure buildout, and it requires software built for an entirely different scale. Chain Reaction is designed to address this directly by accelerating the AI buildout with energy producers, power distributors, data centers and infrastructure builders to:
Chain Reaction’s founding partners include CenterPoint Energy and NVIDIA.
“The energy infrastructure buildout is the industrial challenge of our generation,” said Tristan Gruska, Palantir’s Head of Energy and Infrastructure. “But the software that the sector relies on was not built for this moment. We have spent years quietly deploying systems that keep power plants running and grids reliable. Chain Reaction is the result of building from the ground up for the demands of AI.”
CenterPoint Energy
CenterPoint Energy, a major electric and gas utility headquartered in Houston, serves approximately 7 million customers across Texas, Indiana, Minnesota, and Ohio. After Hurricane Beryl struck Houston in July 2024, CenterPoint committed to building the most resilient coastal grid in the country and selected Palantir as its software backbone. Today, CenterPoint is expanding its partnership beyond storm response and grid resiliency, deploying Chain Reaction to accelerate speed-to-power, and improve operational visibility across its critical assets.
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Palantir’s Chain Reaction is its industrial and military data-integration and modeling software repurposed for the AI energy bottleneck. It unifies fragmented data across generation, transmission, and data-center construction, then uses AI to expose bottlenecks, streamline build-outs, and improve grid management.
In short: It’s Palantir’s supply-chain and operations software applied directly to the energy demands of the AI era.
I’m watching Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, on Joe Rogan right now. He predicts they’ll be using small nuclear reactors to power AI data-centers in 6-7 years. If nothing else comes from this AI craze, the advent of small nuclear power plants would be great. Something that should have already happened.
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Coinkydink? I think not.;-)
Another thing that will be a great result of this AI craze is a completely updated electrical grid. We really need that.
The small modular reactor market is a perfect fit for Palantir.
As SMRs scale, they’ll need an enterprise nervous system to manage everything from reactor design and simulation to regulatory compliance, construction, operations, safety, and predictive maintenance across a growing network of sites. That’s exactly the kind of problem Palantir already solves in aerospace, defense, and energy. SMRs are modular, repeatable, and data-dense—which makes them an ideal match for Palantir’s digital-twin, simulation, and AI-governance stack.
Stock Tip: BigBear AI (BBAI) is easy money....They are another government AI company and had a good run yesterday.
So they are going to rebuild and improve the Grid?
Given that China and/or Russia are already in the Grid, is this a good thing?
Is there something about them that gets your attention?
Oh, great!
Cyber probing of the U.S. grid by China, Russia, and others actually increases the need for a Palantir-level platform. SMRs will create many new power sites, and the worst move would be running them on scattered or outdated systems. Palantir’s strength is securing and monitoring critical infrastructure—exactly what you want when hostile actors are already in the mix.
It already has, they’re just shipboard, and we failed to leverage that tech and HR base into civil reactors. I blame Michael Douglas, Jane Fonda, and Green extremists/groups that were probably originally Soviet funded, now probably getting funding from the CCP.
The Grid is very unreliable and vulnerable to cyber and EMP attack. It needs to be drastically rebuilt and upgraded.
This is going to require a lot of $$. Will Palantir fund that?
Why would Palantir fund grid reconstruction? That’s not their role.
Grid upgrades are physical infrastructure and will ultimately be funded by the users who need the power—mainly data centers and utilities. Palantir’s job is the software layer that secures and operates SMRs, not paying to rebuild transmission lines.
They’re getting a new acquisition in Ask Sage. This company is as good as PLTR and will easily make money through Federal contracts. Not many doing what these guys are doing.
I’m aware of their Ask Sage acquisition. It is interesting.
What could possibly go wrong?
Ah, it’s ok. Who cares about this…look away people….you should instead worry about Nick Fuentes.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4320299/posts
Trump Taps Palantir to Create Database on Americans
NY Times ^ | May 30, 2025 | Sheera Frenkel and Aaron Krolik
Posted on 6/1/2025, 9:31:00 AM by DoodleBob
(Yeah, I know…the Slimes…nonetheless…)
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work across the federal government in recent months. The company has received more than $113 million in federal government spending since Trump took office, according to public records, including additional funds from existing contracts as well as new contracts with the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon. (This does not include a $795 million contract that the Department of Defense awarded the company last week, which has not been spent.)
Representatives of Palantir are also speaking to at least two other agencies — the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service — about buying its technology, according to six government officials and Palantir employees with knowledge of the discussions.
The push has put a key Palantir product called Foundry into at least four federal agencies, including DHS and the Health and Human Services Department. Widely adopting Foundry, which organizes and analyzes data, paves the way for Trump to easily merge information from different agencies, the government officials said.
Creating detailed portraits of Americans based on government data is not just a pipe dream. The Trump administration has already sought access to hundreds of data points on citizens and others through government databases, including their bank account numbers, the amount of their student debt, their medical claims and any disability status.
I’m not defending Palantir, but it doesn’t create databases on Americans; the government already has that data. Palantir just provides a platform to organize what agencies already collect — and it actually adds more oversight, not less. Blaming Palantir for government data is like blaming Excel for what the IRS stores.
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