Palantir Technologies has unveiled Chain Reaction, a new platform designed to help accelerate the buildout of US AI infrastructure by using AI to coordinate permitting, supply chains and power-grid work. Founding partners include CenterPoint Energy and Nvidia.
According to Palantir, Chain Reaction aims to address a simple problem: AI data centers use as much power as a small city, but their build-outs depend on many separate players, including developers, chipmakers, construction firms, utilities and grid operators.
The platform uses Palantir’s software and Nvidia’s AI stack to map dependencies between those players. It can scan unstructured data, including procurement emails and project documents, to flag potential delays and suggest responses before they cascade through the schedule. While Chain Reaction can improve visibility and planning, Palantir notes that it cannot directly accelerate regulatory approvals, construction timelines or the physical expansion of the grid.
The new product builds on an earlier Palantir–Nvidia collaboration that applied similar tools to retail logistics for customers such as Lowe’s. Chain Reaction extends that model to Nvidia’s manufacturing partners, including TSMC, and to CenterPoint’s grid upgrade projects supporting new data centers.
The partnership is aimed squarely at schedule and execution risk. Data-center developers, utilities and grid operators can use a shared view of projects to test scenarios, align timelines and understand how a delay at one party affects everyone else. As AI build-outs strain local grids and supply chains, the partners are pitching Chain Reaction as a way to keep “speed to power” on track.