Founding Head of Power Development — Grid & Data Centres

General Intelligence Holdings; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

General Intelligence Infrastructure is seeking a Founding Head of Power Development — Grid & Data Centre to lead the technical path from initial site potential to documented capacity and actionable capital plan.

You will assess industrial sites, review connection agreements, substation and HV infrastructure, engage with DNOs, utilities, and consultants, and help define the Time-to-Compute methodology while building Europe's power-development capability.

Qualifications

• Ideal background includes senior grid/HV infrastructure experience.
• Experience with UK grid operations and processes is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Assess industrial sites for genuine power potential.
• Review connection agreements, single-line diagrams, and utility correspondence.
• Understand current and potential import capacity and HV infrastructure.
• Engage with DNOs, NESO, utilities and consultants.
• Define realistic time-to-power and capital requirements.
• Identify grid risks before capital is committed.
• Help define site-scoring and Time-to-Compute methodology.
• Collaborate with owners, data-centre developers and project-capital partners.

Job description

Founding Head of Power Development — Grid & Data Centre

General Intelligence Infrastructure is building a technology-enabled powerbank for AI infrastructure.

We use geospatial intelligence, grid data, industrial-site information and AI-assisted imagery to identify overlooked routes to large-scale power across European industrial assets.

But finding apparent power is only the beginning.

We need the person who can tell us whether it is real.

We are looking for a senior grid/HV infrastructure professional to join the founding team and own the technical path from:

“This site may have 50MW”

to:

“This is the documented, technically credible capacity, this is what must happen to use it, this is the capex, and this is the realistic energisation date.”

You will:

assess industrial sites for genuine power potential

review connection agreements, single-line diagrams, utility correspondence and historic electrical demand

understand existing and potential import capacity

assess substations, transmission connections and HV infrastructure

engage with DNOs, NESO, utilities and specialist consultants

determine realistic time-to-power

identify technical and grid risks before GII commits capital

help define GII’s site-scoring and Time-to-Compute methodology

work directly with owners, data-centre developers and project-capital partners

help

GII secure and develop its first controlled MW

ultimately build GII’s European power-development capability

Ideal background

You may currently work for:

National Grid / NESO / a DNO

utility development

transmission/distribution infrastructure

a power engineering consultancy

We are particularly interested in experience with:

33kV–400kV systems

132kV+ grid connections

substations

connection applications/offers

data centres or mission-critical infrastructure

industrial electrical systems

UK grid regulation and processes

You do not need to be a software engineer.

You do need to be able to walk onto an unusual industrial site, interrogate the evidence and tell us what is real.

Why GII

AI infrastructure is increasingly constrained by time-to-power.

We believe substantial electrical infrastructure built for Europe's previous industrial era can be systematically identified, validated and redeployed for its next one.

GII is building the technology and development capability to do that at scale.

You would join at the beginning and have meaningful influence over the company, methodology and project pipeline.