Intrinsic Power

Intrinsic Power is a Los Angeles-based developer of AI-enabled electrical infrastructure. Its AI power orchestration platform continuously senses, predicts and optimizes the flow of electricity across buildings and campuses, connecting otherwise separate pieces of electrical equipment, monitoring electrical conditions and forecasting how much capacity will be available and for how long. The stated aim is to let customers maximize existing electrical capacity, integrate distributed energy resources, improve resilience and accelerate electrification without waiting for grid upgrades.

For data centers, the company positions the grid connection as a resource to be actively managed rather than passively consumed. It describes GPU-cluster demand spikes exceeding 100MW within 10ms that overwhelm legacy UPS capacity and response times, leading operators to run sites at roughly 50% of nominal capacity as a buffer for spikes and APU power loss. Intrinsic Power's approach combines site-wide neural-network sensing for rapid ramp detection with the HV53 high-voltage power and energy system, which provides the physical response speed to absorb spikes, accommodate APU loss or start failures and smooth solar inputs. The AI layer coordinates server loads, cooling and ancillaries with grid supply, solar, available APUs and storage, solving continuously for allocations across site constraints. The company states this unlocks 40% more capacity without infrastructure overhauls.

Alongside the data center line, Intrinsic Power addresses defense and commercial building segments, including the CR50 turnkey EV charging program for building owners. Earlier descriptions of the company characterize it as an operator of smart residential charging stations offering compact, high-power chargers with real-time connectivity, machine-learning time-of-use management and grid demand-response capability for homeowners and property managers.

Founding story

Founded in 2015 on the premise, as stated by cofounder and CEO Broc TenHouten, that electrical infrastructure should be intelligent, adaptive and capable of optimizing itself in real time.

Business model

Intrinsic Power sells AI-enabled electrical infrastructure combining software orchestration with its own power hardware. For data centers, the offering pairs an AI optimization layer with the HV53 high-voltage power and energy system, installed in parallel with existing infrastructure so customers need not replace legacy equipment, and scaled by adding units. For commercial buildings, the company runs the CR50 turnkey EV charging program, in which Intrinsic Power handles grants, incentives and rebates, electrical engineering, permits and drawings, connectivity, chargers, installation and podiums, a five-year parts-and-labor warranty, and ongoing payment processing, with no obligation for the building owner to proceed if grant funding is not secured. A platform application available on the App Store and Google Play lets customers monitor, control and optimize their power infrastructure.

Revenue derives from sales and deployment of its power orchestration platform and HV53 hardware, and, in the EV charging program, from a turnkey package including installation and ongoing payment processing, with building owners positioned to earn profit per utilized charging station.

Traction

The company's technology stack has been installed for commercial power management use cases prior to its data center expansion, and it reports being in the commercialization phase for the AI power orchestration platform. Headcount is listed at 1-10 employees; stage is listed as Seed.

Latest developments

In July 2026 Intrinsic Power announced the first close of an undisclosed Seed round backed by Kyocera Ventures, Boost VC, RPV Global and Drive Catalyst, and said it was commercializing its AI power orchestration platform while expanding from commercial power management into AI data centers, resilient power systems and other mission-critical infrastructure markets.