Why We Started Harbor
Infrastructure is about people and connections. When bridges were built they linked communities on either side of chasms, unlocking exchanges of goods, discourse, and ideas. This infrastructure created rings of benefits. There were those who used the infrastructure, crossing the bridge. There were those who worked on and around the infrastructure, perhaps building or maintaining it. And there were those who interacted with the infrastructure, either directly or indirectly, appreciating how it affected their communities or even the aesthetics it brought to a previously uncrossable chasm.
Somewhere, this meaning of infrastructure was lost.
Today people refer to AI data centers as “infrastructure,” and yet the classical deployment is sterile: as evocative as a warehouse and frequently sequestered and separated from communities. Furthermore, ways to interact with the infrastructure, economically, environmentally, or even aesthetically, are frequently barred. The infrastructure of today is often seen as extractive of space and resources rather than as a benefit to those around. This should not be the case.
We built Harbor Compute to remind the industry how to build infrastructure. Design and land use approaches that seek to bring people in, economic policies that increase exposure and access to the benefits of the site, sourcing strategies that tap locally whenever possible, and energy policies that unlock the resources of regions rather than instill a burden. All of this wrapped in a tech and design approach that enables the demand for more compute to unlock scientific and economic abundance.
This is not the easy way to do this, but it is the right way.
— Keith Heyde, Co-Founder & CEO
Our Team
Keith began his career as a builder early, working for his father who is a carpenter/contractor in New England. After spending time training (PhD Carnegie Mellon) and practicing as an engineer (in civil, environmental, and robotics), Keith launched and led the deployment and performance of aerospace infrastructure both at GoogleX and at projects for the US government.
After leading the equipment manufacturing and compute supply chain teams at Meta, Keith joined OpenAI as the first leader of the Physical Infrastructure team in 2024. There he grew the team in charge of site selection, power, deployment, and partnerships including >5GW of infrastructure buildout across the US. This experience reinforced a calling to design, build, and operate responsible compute, a calling that led Keith to found Harbor Compute in 2026.
Outside of Harbor, Keith spends his time outdoors in the PNW hiking, sailing, mountaineering or some other adventure with his wife and family.
Kaylen leads delivery at Harbor Compute, from design and construction through commissioning, deployment, and operations.
She started her career at 17 as a welder and pipe-fitter in the U.S. Coast Guard, completing four Arctic deployments before going on to spend nearly two decades building and operating mission-critical infrastructure. Most recently, she helped lead OpenAI’s self-build data center program, delivering infrastructure for some of the world’s most demanding AI workloads.
Kaylen knows what it takes to build because she’s done the work herself, and she leads with deep respect for the tradespeople, engineers, and operators who make it happen. She builds teams that move fast, hold a high bar, and aren’t afraid to question how things have always been done. A wife and mom outside of work, she enjoys running, cooking, and taking on DIY projects—and considers a sense of humor an underrated requirement for any ambitious build.
Adam leads the data center design and physical infrastructure teams at Harbor Compute.
A hands-on technical leader, Adam has spent the past 15 years designing and delivering mission-critical infrastructure built for scale and speed. At Meta, he helped expand the company’s global data center fleet. At Tesla, he built the company’s data center program, delivering Cortex 1 and breaking ground on Cortex 2. He went on to serve as Data Center Design & Strategy Lead at OpenAI, shaping the design of Stargate. Most recently, at SB Energy, he assembled and led the engineering team behind the world’s largest data center campus. In total, he has established the plan of record and led data center design for more than 15 GW of projects.
Having seen firsthand how data center projects can strengthen the communities that host them, Adam is passionate about building responsible compute. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Outside of work, he enjoys woodworking, tinkering with cars, and tackling home improvement projects with his wife.
Raghothama Reddy is a technology leader with 25 years of experience in power electronics and power systems, including a decade designing mission-critical data center infrastructure. He holds 24 U.S. patents and brings deep expertise in scalable, energy-efficient power architectures.
At Apple, Reddy was instrumental in expanding data center capacity fivefold and helped establish a dedicated engineering lab and R&D team for next-generation power systems. His work spanned the full data center lifecycle—from concept and design through deployment, operational support, and infrastructure refresh. He specialized in power system and network backbone availability modeling and developed an asset health program to guide proactive infrastructure refreshes.
At OpenAI, Reddy evaluated technologies to smooth AI power demand across rack-level energy storage, low- and medium-voltage UPS systems, and battery energy storage. He helped implement a first-of-its-kind low-voltage UPS solution to support compliance with ERCOT NOGRR 282 and keep forced power oscillations within required limits.
Outside of work, Reddy enjoys running, gardening, and spending time with his wife and two children.
Behind our founders is a team that has spent careers getting hard things built: power secured, financing closed, equipment on site, campuses online. They’ve done it at OpenAI, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla and others, and now they do it together, alongside the builders, tradespeople and local partners who make every Harbor campus real.
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