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It’s a faster, cleaner, and safer alternative, unlocking a $2 trillion infrastructure opportunity.The grid powering America was built a century ago — long before AI, EVs, and cloud computing. It’s aging, overloaded, and cracking under demand. It’s outdated and increasingly vulnerable to climate change and security threats. Without new infrastructure, our national progress and resilience stalls.Groundbreaking tech is not the only way EarthGrid plans to accelerate project timelines. We have been awarded Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCNs) in 46 states, covering 97% of the U.S. population.Backed by $50 million from top VCs, strategic partners, and over 20,000 investors, EarthGrid aims to replace our antiquated grid with a SuperGrid — an accelerated, resilient foundation for America’s future.Whether you’re reading this on your phone, tablet, or laptop, the same truth holds: we need more power.America’s grid is buckling under the weight of 21st-century demands. Massive AI-powered data centers, billions of cellphones, and millions of household electrical appliances were never part of the plan when the grid was designed nearly a century ago.Not only is our grid ancient, it's fragmented, unreliable, and vulnerable. Electricity demand is projected to rise 5X by 2027, but our infrastructure is likely to fail. And yet a shocking mere 22% of power comes from renewable sources such as solar, wind, or hydropower. Even as we produce more clean energy, we don’t have the capacity to store it or transmit it to where it’s needed.The U.S. has a clean energy pipeline problem. Developers spend years designing, financing, and planning solar and wind farms only to abandon them because the grid can’t absorb their power. Interconnection delays are killing progress.Traditional solutions like overhead transmission lines are no longer viable. They face years of permitting delays, community protests, lawsuits, and are highly prone to increasingly prevalent extreme weather events. While they seem cheap on paper, they rarely make it to construction.Conventional underground tunneling relies on mechanical tunnel boring machines (TBMs) that are slow, costly, and often break down. Vital infrastructure such as tunnels and pipelines often uses massive, custom-built machines designed for specific geologies. This adds millions in cost and months of lead time before digging can even begin.EarthGrid is advancing infrastructure with the world’s first plasma cutterhead — a contactless system that disintegrates even the hardest rock using temperatures as hot as the surface of the sunOur patented system uses plasma torches to superheat rock beyond 5,000°C — as hot as the surface of the sun — to disintegrate even the hardest rock type. Granite and basalt are our bread and butter.We deploy this technology in two core systems.The Plasma Excavation System (PES) handles trenching — ideal for last-mile fiber, power lines, and water infrastructure. Both systems run on air and electricity alone; no mechanical cutting heads, no chemicals, and no explosives.The Tunnel Boring Robot (TBR) is a scalable platform for both small and large-diameter tunnels, expanding underground access for energy, communications, and transportation.We don’t grind. We don’t drill. We disintegrate.Our zero-contact plasma system means faster cuts, faster tunnels, and faster projects. Speed isn’t an outcome. It’s built into the way we bore.Instead of grinding or blasting, we fracture rock into flakes that are instantly vacuumed away for continuous tunneling. A vacuum instantly clears the debris, enabling high-speed boring with minimal energy and waste. The debris aggregate can be recycled for construction, civil engineering, environmental, or industrial use.What makes EarthGrid truly different are our proprietary rock recipes. We adjust power, stand-off distance, and other variables dynamically to match the rock we’re cutting through in real time. No other system on Earth can do that.With 162 patent claims protecting our hardware, trenching systems, and core plasma technology, we’ve built a defensible advantage in a stagnant industry.A Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) is one of the hardest permits to secure in American infrastructure. It grants legal authority to build in public rights-of-way, including underground tunnels beneath roads and highways, and is typically reserved for established utilities.The process can take years of navigating legal, technical, and environmental reviews, with each state imposing its own complex rules and regulatory hurdles. CPCNs are rare because they grant a form of monopoly access to public land. Regulators don’t hand them out lightly.EarthGrid has 46, giving us near-national coverage and a massive head start for fast scaling.We’ve raised $50 million across four rounds, each at a higher valuation than the last. The oversubscription of those rounds and the continued interest through extensions prove there’s a strong appetite for high-growth infrastructure backed by innovative technology and long-term recurring revenue.With a robust contract pipeline, partnerships in the works with national and international infrastructure authorities, the first machine deployed, and strong investor conviction, we’re powering America’s next generation of infrastructure.From global media to multinational energy players, our impact is felt across sectors and geographies. We’re in active discussions with major government agencies, blue-chip tech firms, and multinational infrastructure players who see the potential to scale this platform across critical systems.EarthGrid’s leadership team hails from industry powerhouses like New Relic, Rivian, Coinbase, the U.S. Army, and AT\u0026amp;T. They’ve taken companies public, led billion-dollar infrastructure programs, and brought breakthrough technologies to market at a national scale.Founder and CEO Troy Helming is a clean energy pioneer with four exits, one decacorn ($10B), and more than 170 patents. He's developed $35 billion in energy projects including Tradewind Energy, which were acquired by Enel and Macquarie. CFO Mark Sachleben led New Relic (NASDAQ: NEWR) to a $1.4 billion IPO.EarthGrid’s powerhouse advisory team is composed of former utility regulators and executives from Fortune 500s, including Alphabet, Comcast, and Entergy.A $2 trillion market is opening beneath our feet. As governments and industries worldwide are racing to close the infrastructure deficit, EarthGrid is leading the charge as a first mover.EarthGrid runs on a dual-revenue model designed for both speed and scale.BADASS™ (Boring And Drilling As a Simple Service) delivers near-term profit through accelerating trenching and tunneling for existing projects. It operates as a fast-moving construction service that generates revenue on every meter bored.BOOM™ (Build, Own, Operate \u0026amp; Maintain) is our long-term engine, creating revenue-producing underground real estate called Terraspace™. These corridors carry power, fiber, water, and more, generating recurring ARR through utility-style tariffs.We create faster, more cost-effective trenching and tunneling in hard or sensitive terrain. Our customers include utilities, municipalities, telecom carriers, energy developers, and other infrastructure operators. As Terraspace™ expands, we will lease access to these corridors to power, fiber, water, and data tenants, enabling long-term recurring revenue through multi-use infrastructure.Together, these models combine the velocity of a construction services company with the compounding revenue profile of a utility infrastructure platform.The current primary driver of our BADASS™ model is the Plasma Excavation System (PES). It has already broken ground in the field and on track for commercial deployment next year.Our Tunnel Boring Robot (TBR) is next and unlike anything on the market. It’s a fully autonomous boring robot engineered to tunnel longer, faster, and at radically lower cost. TBR enters commercial deployment in 2026, unlocking massive long-term revenue through both our BADASS™ and BOOM™ models.We’re executing a dual-track roadmap to transform the $2 trillion infrastructure market. Your investment accelerates deployment, expands manufacturing, and fuels the buildout of the future of infrastructure.EarthGrid is following in the footsteps of industry leaders that have reshaped the way power and infrastructure are built. By bringing breakthrough plasma boring to a $2T+ underground infrastructure market, we’re positioned to become the next category-defining player.The large market caps of industry leaders The Boring Co and NextEra Energy further underscore the immense potential for breakthrough innovations in underground construction and grid modernization.We’re ready to tunnel and trench our way into the future of Infrastructure 2.0.To date, we’ve raised $50 million to develop advanced industrial hardware and field-proven plasma systems. 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With pilot projects for PES (Plasma Excavation System) on the horizon, and our TBR (Tunnel Boring Robot) deployed for a 10-meter test tunnel as we speak, EarthGrid is on it's way to becoming unstoppable, and much more valuable. We’re still finalizing the terms for this round. Make sure to click “Fol..."},{"question":"Plasma excels in hard rock, but what about other trenching and tunneling conditions like soft rock and soil. How would earthgrid approach those conditions? What is the plan for executing on potential mixed condition contracts?","answer":"Hey Justin, Handling mixed soil is a part of TBR's tech roadmap. We have conducted early testing with mixed rock and soil and have seen promising results. 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