Nick Poradek

[adamblake @adamblake]

Today we’re unveiling @mavriaX

I left DOE seriously worried that America could lose the AI race. We can have the best researchers and technology in the world and still lose if we can't build the power and infrastructure fast enough to stay ahead.

I don't think people appreciate how different the world could look if China wins this race. I love this country, and I don't want to find out. I believe the world is better when America leads. Not perfect, but better. Freer, safer, more hopeful. That's why I felt called to start Mavria.

Nick and @OverReactor1776 were the people I wanted to take this on with. We worked together at DOE on some of the hardest problems in American energy. I've seen firsthand how Nick tackles difficult engineering and supply chain problems. He's one of the most capable and intense operators I know. I watched Seth push through changes to American nuclear policy that people had been talking about for decades. I couldn't ask for better cofounders.

People keep telling me we’re playing the game on hard mode. We wouldn’t want it any other way.

I believe America is capable of another great industrial revolution. We have the talent, resources and ingenuity. But we must fundamentally rethink how we build.

I'm grateful to everyone who's believed in us. I can't think of a greater privilege than getting to build infrastructure to secure America's future.

If this resonates with you, come build with us.
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[Seth Cohen @OverReactor1776]

Mavria’s mission is to ensure that America delivers frontier infrastructure as quickly as we release frontier models.  

Even though we founded Mavria in June, our story started back in 2025.  @adamblake, @nickporadek, and I spent over a year of our lives fighting inside the US government to help secure a better future.  In the modern world, all progress is just a wrapper on energy.  When imagination outpaces power delivery, the unyielding laws of physics always win.  Accelerating our society up the Kardashev scale meant, and still means, rethinking how we arrange atoms in the physical world, no different than rethinking the architecture behind AI models.  We found stagnation across nuclear, transmission, and scientific research, and we did our level best to help.  But there is always more work to do.  And in my life, I’ve always looked for gradients, places where I can best leverage my time and energy for the most impact.  

Thankfully, I’ve had the privilege of learning how to deconstruct existing industrial processes and how we govern them alongside some of America’s most brilliant founders, leaders, thinkers, and builders.  That’s why, when Adam and Nick asked me to join them on something new, I said yes.  I knew that if we set out to build one of the most important industrial platforms of the 21st century, we would succeed.  Since starting, we’ve assembled a team of incredible people and supporters who share our vision, and, more importantly, our refusal to accept a different outcome.

Mavria starts, but by no means ends, with Terrain, a modular data center platform that will revolutionize AI infrastructure across the United States.  When we say Terrain will deploy in weeks, not months or years, we mean it.  Faster deployment means shorter time to tokens, but it also means less disruption to our host communities, the most important partners in our entire ecosystem.  In the same way we helped shift the dialogue around nuclear and the fuel cycle, Mavria will work with towns, counties, states, and the federal government to help change how average Americans feel about their future in a world of abundant intelligence.   

Like nuclear, data centers get a bad rep (in some cases, deservedly so).  But, also like nuclear, America needs more data centers.  Growing up, watching the Jetsons, I always felt robbed of the nuclear-powered future that society promised to my parents.  What I thought was a failure of imagination turned out to be a failure of execution and loss of social license.  Yet, support for nuclear power increases the closer you get to an operating nuclear plant.  We see a world where data centers also get more popular the closer you get to Terrain.  We’ve learned the lesson; don’t stop building, just build better.

Scaling Terrain will allow us to develop the tools we need to tackle other critical infrastructure projects, too.  When we prove ourselves in data centers, Mavria will then manufacture products upstream from Terrain until adding more compute seems as simple as using it.  And then, we will build even more.  Keeping our promise means that America can keep its promise as the land of opportunity, a world where anyone with a dream, tenacity, and a refusal to believe in “no” can cobble together the resources to build something extraordinary.  It means that when my children watch the Jetsons, they will not long for a fumbled future.  

Come help us keep our promise.  Come build the future with Mavria:
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[Mavria @mavriaX]

The next phase of the AI race will be won or lost in the physical world. America’s frontier researchers are regularly working miracles, but they’re limited by atoms and electrons. That’s why we founded Mavria.

We're turning bespoke construction projects into repeatable infrastructure products that can be manufactured at scale, like cars, computers and even rockets are today.

Our first product is Terrain, a factory-built data center engineered for speed and simplicity of deployment. With standardized 5 MW blocks, it integrates power, cooling, controls and infrastructure needed for AI compute. Terrain 01 is in production in Houston today.

Instead of sourcing and integrating a series of disjointed modules, customers get an integrated, factory-tested product. It’s the difference between building your own PC vs. buying a MacBook.

We’ve raised $130M, including a new $100M round led by @paradigm at a $1B valuation. We’re also backed by @amppbc, Critical Frontier, @Liquid2V, @DreamVenturesVC, and others. We're putting that capital to work securing critical supply chains, scaling manufacturing, and expanding our team.