Houston-based general contractor Satterfield & Pontikes Construction has secured priority access to DG Matrix's Interport solid-state transformer platform, the companies announced, forming a strategic partnership aimed at accelerating AI data center construction across Texas at a moment when conventional transformer supply chains have become one of the industry's most significant bottlenecks.

A Supply Chain Problem Driving a Technology Shift

Lead times for conventional transformers have stretched to two to three years, pushing first-power dates back six to nine months on projects dependent on legacy procurement timelines.

That delay has emerged as one of the most persistent constraints facing data center developers in the United States.

The partnership between DG Matrix, headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina, and Satterfield & Pontikes, an ENR Top 400 general contractor with offices across Texas, is designed to sidestep that constraint entirely.

DG Matrix describes the Interport as the first commercially available multiport solid-state transformer. Unlike conventional transformer installations, which require multiple discrete systems to handle functions such as uninterruptible power supply capability, energy aggregation, and power conversion, the Interport platform consolidates those functions into what the company calls an integrated, software-configurable power fabric.

The platform supports simultaneous AC or DC outputs, an 800-VDC architecture, and includes capabilities for mitigating the pulse loads generated by generative AI servers.

For Satterfield & Pontikes, priority access to that platform means the ability to bring AI data center projects online six to nine months ahead of schedule, built around conventional transformer procurement.

Texas Legislation Raises the Stakes for Behind-the-Meter Power

The timing of the partnership aligns with a significant shift in the Texas regulatory environment. Texas Senate Bill 6, signed into law in June 2025, established new requirements for large-load customers seeking to connect to the ERCOT grid.

Facilities drawing 75 megawatts or more now face interconnection cost-sharing requirements, mandatory load curtailment capabilities during grid emergencies, and remote-disconnect obligations for sites energized after December 31, 2025.

Those requirements have placed a premium on behind-the-meter power self-sufficiency, meaning data center developers are increasingly looking to generate and manage power on-site rather than depend on utility grid interconnection.

The Interport platform is designed specifically to support that model, enabling flexible behind-the-meter power architectures that, according to DG Matrix, do not depend on slow-moving utility interconnection queues.

"Texas has become the most consequential data center market in the country, and the regulatory landscape with SB6 makes intelligent, behind-the-meter power infrastructure a requirement," said Haroon Inam, CEO and co-founder of DG Matrix.

Why Texas Has Become the Central Battleground

Texas currently holds roughly one-fifth of the entire U.S. national data center pipeline.

Analysts project the state will surpass 40 gigawatts of total data center capacity by 2028, representing nearly 30 percent of all U.S. demand.

At that trajectory, Texas is on pace to overtake Northern Virginia as the world's largest data center market by 2030. Several factors underpin that growth.

The Permian Basin provides access to natural gas. Texas ranks among the leading states nationally for wind and solar energy resources.

Abundant available land supports utility-scale battery storage development.

For hyperscale cloud and AI infrastructure operators, that combination of energy resources, land availability, and a permissive development environment has made the state a primary target for capital deployment.

Cam Thrutchley, Vice President of Mission Critical at Satterfield & Pontikes, described the moment as a convergence of conditions.

"In mid-2025, we began to see the stars aligning between Texas and Silicon Valley," Thrutchley said. "Texas had all the ingredients to become the ideal place on Earth where hyperscalers could build at speed and scale behind the meter, and fortunately, it's where we call home."

What the Partnership Delivers

The two companies are positioning the arrangement as a turnkey, end-to-end delivery model for AI data centers.

The structure aligns power strategy, engineering, and construction under a single integrated approach, which the companies say streamlines coordination across stakeholders, reduces engineering complexity, and eliminates traditional integration bottlenecks.

For hyperscale data center developers, the practical implication is a single technology solution deployable across an entire portfolio of projects, with the ability to future-proof designs for next-generation data center architectures as compute density and power requirements continue to climb.

The Interport's software-configurable design means the platform can adapt to evolving energy demands without requiring full infrastructure replacement.

Satterfield & Pontikes also brings a technology-forward construction methodology to the partnership. The company was an early adopter of Building Information Modeling technology that contributed to the foundation of the Autodesk Construction Suite, now among the most widely used construction management platforms in the industry.

That same technology infrastructure drives S&P's current data center delivery workflow, which the company says compresses build timelines and eliminates coordination gaps across complex, multi-trade construction projects.

"General contractors competing for the next generation of hyperscale data center work are going to be defined by who they partner with," Thrutchley said.

"Access to Interport changes our delivery calculus in a meaningful way.

While others wait years for transformer supply, we build."

Expanding S&P's Multi-Gigawatt Data Center Business

The announcement comes as Satterfield & Pontikes actively expands its data center construction business to a multi-gigawatt scale.

The company's Texas footprint and existing relationships with hyperscale clients position it to compete directly for the large-scale projects that are reshaping the state's energy and infrastructure landscape.

The partnership with DG Matrix gives the general contractor a differentiated procurement and delivery story at a time when transformer supply constraints are creating measurable schedule risk across the industry.

For developers evaluating general contractors on the basis of speed and reliability, the ability to offer a commercially available solid-state transformer alternative to a two-to-three-year procurement cycle represents a concrete competitive advantage.

DG Matrix, which identifies itself as the global leader in solid-state transformer solutions, now has a channel partner with the construction scale and Texas market presence to translate that technology advantage into deployed projects across what both companies describe as the most active data center construction market in the country.