Xeal today launched Laitent, the world’s first edge inference compute network using idle EV charging capacity. With one of the five largest Level 2 EV charging footprints in the U.S., Laitent will tap more than 200MW of permitted, installed electrical infrastructure across 1,600+ properties. Xeal, a member of NVIDIA Inception, plans to deploy over 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs alongside EV charging infrastructure. Xeal has also secured partnerships with Rafay Systems for AI infrastructure orchestration, Spectrum Business for dedicated enterprise-grade fiber for inference workloads, dozens of real estate and property managers, and a Tier 1 inference provider for up to 5MW of compute. The first Laitent Pod will be brought online with partner JVM Realty by the end of 2026.
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Rendering of the Laitent Pod with a Xeal charger.
“If you need inference compute today and can’t wait for a new data center to come online, Laitent can accelerate your timeline from years to months,” said Nikhil Bharadwaj, co-founder and CEO of Xeal. “Laitent is the fastest way to bring new compute online, tapping already permitted and grid-connected, yet idle energy capacity, located right where it’s needed for ultra-low latency, with no water hookup requirements.”
By tapping unused energy capacity, Xeal will avoid the most difficult hurdle to bringing new compute online: grid interconnect. EV charging sites must be permitted for a maximum energy charging load, but typically operate at less than 10% of permitted capacity; Xeal taps the remaining 90% for compute. Idle energy capacity is seamlessly routed within the new Laitent Pod by Xeal’s dynamic power orchestration software, capable of activating a single slice of a single GPU all the way to a distributed network across a metropolitan area with the highest performance SLAs.
“As AI adoption grows, infrastructure must become more distributed, flexible and energy efficient—placing the right workloads where power and capacity are available,” said Marc Spieler, Senior Managing Director for the Global Energy Industry at NVIDIA. “By pairing NVIDIA accelerated computing with Xeal’s existing grid-connected EV charging footprint, Laitent offers an innovative way to bring low-latency inference closer to users while making better use of infrastructure that has already been built.”
“The industry has been asking how to bring inference closer to users without years of data center buildout — Laitent is a real answer,” said Haseeb Budhani, CEO of Rafay Systems. “Rafay’s orchestration layer turns Xeal’s distributed EV charging sites into a production-grade, GPU-ready compute fabric, so operators get hyperscaler-level management without hyperscaler-level infrastructure. This is exactly the kind of distributed, energy-aware AI infrastructure the market needs next.”
Each Laitent Pod is about the size of one parking space, contains up to 48 GPUs, requires no water hookup, and runs quiet at less than 65 decibels. The location of Laitent Pods in metro areas, what Laitent calls the Metro Edge, offers sub-20ms latency, a significant speedup over inference located in a distant data center. Furthermore, Laitent offers property owners ancillary revenue opportunities and can add as much as $1m in property value, for little-to-no upfront investment.
“With Laitent, Xeal is creating new ancillary revenue streams from infrastructure already in place across our communities,” said Steve Boyack, Chief Operating Officer of JVM Realty, which has worked with Xeal since 2023. “For property owners, the combination of a new income stream with little-to-no upfront investment creates meaningful financial upside.”
Laitent Pod Features
- Powered by idle EV charging capacity
- Up to 48 NVIDIA Hopper or Blackwell Ultra GPUs
- Self-contained independent cooling, no water hookup required
- Quiet operation at less than 65 dBs (comparable to a washing machine)
- Fixed rental or ancillary revenue for site owner
- Adds up to $1 million in property value for little-to-no investment
- All power bills covered as a tenant passthrough
- Potential savings for EV charging customers
- Built to withstand the outdoors, NEMA 4 enclosure
- Installed and running in hours
- Fits in a single parking space
Looking beyond the initial 200MW of installed charging capacity, Xeal plans to unlock over 1GW of existing headroom across real estate and EV charging deployments. Having built more than 1,600 EV charging sites over the last seven years, Xeal already has a team in place with extensive experience siting and installing energy infrastructure across more than 160 metro areas in the U.S.
About Xeal Energy
Xeal is a technology-first EV charging company operating at the intersection of mobility, real estate, IoT, and energy. Powered by its patented Xeal Protocol, Xeal’s self-reliant charging solution delivers 100% uptime with no cellular, Wi-Fi, or Ethernet required. This eliminates costly IT infrastructure while offering property owners metered payments, dynamic load management, revenue sharing, and a seamless tap-to-charge experience for drivers. Xeal operates in 500+ cities across the U.S. For more information, visit xealenergy.com
About Laitent
Laitent is the world’s first edge inference compute network powered by idle EV charging capacity. An innovative new approach to AI compute, Laitent’s modular Pods avoid utility power permitting, minimize noise, and eliminate the need for a water hookup, backup generators, gas turbines or large construction for new infrastructure. Powered by Xeal, Laitent is the next step in the company’s pursuit to make clean energy work anywhere for anyone. By combining EV charging with AI compute, Xeal will accelerate the adoption of EV infrastructure everywhere. The first Laitent Pods are slated to debut in 2026. For more information, visit laitent.ai.
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