{"id":671691,"date":"2025-05-27T15:25:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T12:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/gridcare-thinks-more-than-100-mw-of-data-center-capacity-is-hiding-in-the-grid\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T15:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T12:25:18","slug":"gridcare-thinks-more-than-100-mw-of-data-center-capacity-is-hiding-in-the-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gridcare-thinks-more-than-100-mw-of-data-center-capacity-is-hiding-in-the-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"Gridcare thinks more than 100 MW of data center capacity is hiding in the grid"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hyperscalers and data center developers are in a pickle: They all want to add computing power tomorrow, but utilities frequently play hard to get, citing years-long waits for grid connections.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the AI data centers are struggling to get connected,\u201d Amit Narayan, founder and CEO of Gridcare<\/a>, told TechCrunch. \u201cThey\u2019re so desperate. They are looking for solutions, which may or may not happ<\/a>en. Certainly not in the five year timelines they cite.\u201d<\/p>\n

That has led many data centers to pursue what\u2019s called \u201cbehind the meter\u201d power sources \u2014 basically, they build their own power plants, a costly endeavor that hints at just how desperate they are for electricity.<\/p>\n

But Narayan knew there was plenty of slack in the system, even if utilities themselves haven\u2019t discovered it yet. He has studied the grid for the last 15 years, first as a Stanford researcher then as a founder of another company. \u201cHow do we create more capacity when everyone thinks that there is no capacity on the grid?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Narayan said that Gridcare, which has been operating in stealth, has already discovered several places where extra capacity exists, and it\u2019s ready to play matchmaker between data centers and utilities.<\/p>\n

Gridcare recently closed an oversubscribed $13.5 million seed round, the company told TechCrunch. The round was led by led by Xora, Temasek\u2019s deep tech venture firm, with participation from Acclimate Ventures, Aina Climate AI Ventures, Breakthrough Energy Discovery, Clearvision, Clocktower Ventures, Overture Ventures, Sherpalo Ventures, and WovenEarth.<\/p>\n

For Narayan and his colleagues at Gridcare, the first step to finding untapped capacity was to map the existing grid. Then the company used generative AI to help forecast what changes might be implemented in the coming years. It also layers on other details, including the availability of fiber optic connections, natural gas, water, extreme weather, permitting, and community sentiment around data center construction and expansion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are 200,000-plus scenarios that you have to consider every time you\u2019re running this study,\u201d Narayan said.<\/p>\n

To make sure it\u2019s not running afoul of regulations, Gridcare then takes that data and weighs it against federal guidelines that dictate grid usage. Once it finds a spot, it starts talking with the relevant utility to verify the data.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll find out where the maximum bang for the buck is,\u201d Narayan said.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Gridcare works with hyperscalers and data center developers to identify where they are looking to expand operations or build new ones. \u201cThey have already told us what they\u2019re willing to do. We know the parameters under which they can operate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when the matchmaking begins.<\/p>\n

Gridcare sells its services to data center developers, charging them a fee based on how many megawatts of capacity the startup can unlock for them. \u201cThat fee is significant for us, but it\u2019s negligible for data centers,\u201d Narayan said.<\/p>\n

For some data centers, the price of admission might be forgoing grid power for a few hours here and there, relying on on-site backup power instead. For others, the path might be clearer if their demand helps green light a new grid-scale battery installation nearby. In the future, the winner might be the developer that is willing to pay more. Utilities have already approached Gridcare inquiring about auctioning access to newfound capacity.<\/p>\n

Regardless of how it happens, Narayan thinks that Gridcare can unlock more than 100 megawatts of capacity using its approach. \u201cWe don\u2019t have to solve nuclear fusion to do this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hyperscalers and data center developers are in a pickle: They all want to add computing power tomorrow, but utilities frequently play hard to get, citing years-long waits for grid connections. \u201cAll the AI data centers are struggling to get connected,\u201d Amit Narayan, founder and CEO of Gridcare, told TechCrunch. \u201cThey\u2019re so desperate. They are looking…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":671692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/electrical-grid-at-night.jpg?resize=1200,800","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[74871,75885,130390,77143,153835,154437,74839,156667],"class_list":["post-671691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-electricity","tag-enterprise","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-climate","tag-data-centers","tag-electrical-grid","tag-fundraising","tag-temasek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}