Data Center Energy Manager

Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.

-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.

Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.

Power is the binding constraint on AI capacity, and you will own it for Crux — securing megawatts, making energization dates real, and managing energy cost and risk across the portfolio. You will negotiate with utilities, market operators, and power providers across interconnection, tariffs, and supply agreements, and you will pressure-test every power claim behind a site or third-party deal before we commit capital to it.

The role spans development and operations: getting new load connected on the dates the business is selling, structuring bridging and behind-the-meter solutions when the grid date and the customer date do not match, and managing the energy P&L of sites in production.

• Manage commercial relationships with utilities, ISOs/RTOs, and energy suppliers across a multi-state portfolio — interconnection and load studies, rate structures and tariff strategy, energy service agreements, and PPAs.

• Own energization reality for every project: separately validate the date power supports commissioning and the date it supports operations, and when the first is later than the schedule needs, structure and price bridging power into the base plan — not the risk register.

• Support site selection and third-party deal screening as the power diligence lead — verifying interconnection queue positions, capacity claims, study status, and utility commitments behind every site and powered-shell offer.

• Develop behind-the-meter and on-site generation options (gas gen, fuel cells, storage, islanded/bridge configurations) where they beat the grid on speed or cost, and manage the developers and OEMs who deliver them.

• Negotiate agreements that preserve flexibility — load ramp schedules, curtailment terms, capacity expansion rights — so power contracts scale with the fleet rather than constraining it.

• Manage energy cost across operating sites: forecasting, hedging strategy with finance, demand/tariff optimization, and monthly energy P&L reporting by site.

• Represent Crux with regulators, policymakers, and communities on rate cases and energy matters affecting our loads, in coordination with legal and external affairs.

• You will have the power position mapped for every active site and deal in the pipeline: interconnection status, energization dates (commissioning and operations, separately), contract status, and the top risks with owners and mitigation paths.

• You will have the first utility/supply agreements negotiated or renegotiated on Crux paper.

• The bridging strategy is in place for any site with a grid-date gap.

• The power diligence standard is embedded in the site selection and 3P screening process.

• You will have ensured every energization commitment made to the business has held or been re-forecast early with a remedy.

• Portfolio energy cost is tracking at or under plan.

• A credible multi-GW power pipeline is supporting the growth roadmap.

• 10+ years…