AI-powered optimization for data center operations—improving efficiency, reliability, and sustainability without ceding control.
Why we invested
Data centers are the factories of the AI era, but they're running on decades-old operational practices. Operators face compounding pressures: power constraints at the grid edge, tightening sustainability regulations, and a wave of senior engineers retiring with institutional knowledge walking out the door. Lucend's platform ingests existing sensor data and delivers actionable optimization recommendations within weeks—no new hardware, no rip-and-replace. Customers like Digital Realty and T5 Data Centers are seeing meaningful improvements in energy efficiency, water usage, and equipment reliability.
Lucend has a "Perceptive AI" philosophy: the platform recommends, but operators decide and act. In an industry where five-nines uptime is non-negotiable, data center teams won't hand control to a black box. Lucend earns trust by being transparent about every recommendation and letting customers move toward automation at their own pace.
Why this work matters
The explosive growth in AI compute is straining power grids and water resources worldwide. Every percentage point of efficiency improvement in data center operations translates to megawatts saved and emissions avoided at massive scale. Lucend's approach—working with the operational realities of risk-averse infrastructure teams rather than against them—is how this industry will actually adopt AI for its own operations. As data centers become critical infrastructure on par with the grid itself, the operators who run them need tools that make them more capable, not tools that try to replace them.