Advancing the
human frontier.

In 1964, astronomer Nikolai Kardashev proposed measuring the progress of a civilization by the total amount of energy it can harness. A civilization that can capture and use all of the energy of its home planet is considered Type I. Humanity currently sits at roughly 0.73. Every technological advancement has allowed us to step up in that scale. We went from muscle power to the steam engine, then brought electricity to billions of homes and industries. Each of these achievements has allowed the next generation to progress even further, advancing the human frontier and improving the human condition.

Artificial intelligence is the next chapter in this story. More power means more compute, and more compute means we could cure diseases, help reverse climate change, and even reach beyond our planet. The infrastructure needed to support these great advances is massively constrained. Data centers used around 4% of electricity in the U.S. in 2023,¹ and by 2030 this could increase to as much as 15%.² Today the limit is not our creativity but physical hardware. Large power transformers once arrived in under a year but can now take up to three years, and gas turbines are booked out for years. Dozens of gigawatts of projects are at risk of slowing down or being stopped, threatening our ability to innovate.

Applied Kinetics aims to break that bottleneck. We manufacture and supply the critical equipment and infrastructure needed to sustain the AI buildout, including transformers, switchgear, generators, cooling, and much more. We run our own operations on the AI agents we build, which keeps quotes, factory tests, and shipments moving. A civilization is measured by what it can power. We’re here to help it power more.