Rising demand from AI and electric vehicles is straining aging electrical grids and creating backlogs for capacity upgrades. Yottar creates detailed maps of distribution-grid capacity to show where power is available and how much at each location. The company targets medium-sized demand developers seeking 1–5 megawatts for data centers, EV charging, and similar loads. Yottar's mapping approach contrasts with firms that seek to reclassify existing utility capacity. Customers include Tesla, which uses the SaaS to select and upgrade Supercharger sites, and the U.K. National Health Service, which uses it to locate EV chargers and plan solar and battery installations.
From AI to EVs, the world's demand for power is soaring, and the electrical grid is feeling the squeeze. Enter Yottar, a startup that maps electrical grid capacity to help companies figure out where they can plug in new data centers, EV charging stations, and other power-hungry equipment. "The electrification super cycle is colliding with the AI data center boom. That's making the grid operators really struggle to deal with the backlog," Peter Clutton-Brock, Yottar's co-founder and CEO, told TechCrunch.
As ancient grids grow increasingly strained, startups like Yottar have sprung up to help energy users cope with these shortcomings. Some companies, like Gridcare, focus on finding unused capacity that already exists - convincing utilities that they actually have more space available than they claim. Yottar take a different approach. Rather than arguing about existing capacity, the company creates detailed maps showing exactly where grid capacity exists and how much power is available at each location.
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