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Legrand to integrate Karman AI platform into data center PDUs and power shelves

, a leader in embedded AI for power infrastructure, announced a new partnership with 

 a global leader in physical infrastructure and power management for data centers. Legrand will integrate Karman into its power distribution product lines, including its intelligent AC rack PDUs and DC power shelves designed for high-density and AI data centers. With Karman, Legrand’s data center customers can power more compute and generate 50% or more AI tokens using the same provisioned power.

The partnership addresses the growing demands of data centers with GPU-intensive operations that now require more power. A lack of power visibility and control leaves a significant amount of contracted power sitting idle. With Legrand, a market leader in intelligent power distribution products, and Karman’s expertise in power control, the two are uniquely positioned to deliver a solution built to scale with the pace of AI.

"By partnering with Karman, Legrand continues to demonstrate its technological leadership and innovation by delivering additional value to data center operators,” said Swen Anderson, CTO of Legrand Data Power and Control Division. “We’re providing data centers with the tools to unlock stranded power and deliver measurable competitive advantages and increased revenue.”

The Karman platform is built on a custom version of the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano and can be easily embedded in energy infrastructure. Karman’s microsecond power visibility and predictive controls allow data center operators to see real-time power budgets and schedule more tasks within the same provisioned power. By capturing power usage at microsecond resolution, Karman enables highly accurate profiling of power usage and predictions tied to instantaneous workload demands.

“Power continues to be the primary limiting factor to data center capacity expansion. Yet, a large portion of provisioned power in data centers goes untapped,” said Josh Brumberger, CEO of Karman. “This partnership with Legrand changes that. By embedding Karman into Legrand’s power distribution products, data center operators can now utilize that power to expand capacity immediately, while reducing the price per GPU hour.”

Legrand’s data center category leading brands, including Raritan, Server Technology, and ZPE Systems, will be the first to feature the Karman platform. The companies anticipate the first Karman enabled Legrand products will be available in mid 2027.

Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures. Its comprehensive offering of solutions for residential, commercial, and datacenter markets makes it a benchmark for customers worldwide. The Group harnesses technological and societal trends with lasting impacts on buildings with the purpose of improving life by transforming the spaces where people live, work and meet with electrical, digital infrastructures and connected solutions that are simple, innovative and sustainable. Drawing on an approach that involves all teams and stakeholders, Legrand is pursuing a strategy of profitable and responsible growth driven by acquisitions and innovation, with a steady flow of new offerings that include products with enhanced value in use. Legrand reported sales of €9.5 billion in 2025. The company is listed on Euronext Paris and is a component stock of the CAC 40, CAC 40 ESG and CAC Transition Climat indexes (code ISIN FR0010307819). 

Karman is a company providing dynamic power orchestration for AI data centers, enabling operators to better utilize the power already available to them. By embedding real-time visibility and control directly into power distribution equipment, Karman unlocks stranded capacity. The Karman platform is built on a custom NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, and was previously embedded into smart meters to bring real-time visibility and power-flow control to the electric grid. 

Karman Partners with Legrand to Increase Data Center Compute Capacity 

Aolani, a Singapore-founded neocloud powering AI growth, today announced a partnership with Karman (formerly known as Utilidata) to fully utilize available power of Aolani’s AI infrastructure through advanced power orchestration capabilities.

As global demand for AI compute intensifies, intelligent energy management has become crucial in maximising AI infrastructure performance and scalability. Being at the forefront of providing AI compute access in Asia, Aolani is continuously investing in technologies that optimize the use of available power resources to drive greater efficiency and value from their AI deployments.

Through this partnership, Aolani will integrate the Karman platform, a dynamic power orchestration platform that combines high-resolution metrology with local processing and AI, into its infrastructure stack. Karman is built on a custom 

 and designed to measure and dynamically allocate available power capacity across high-density GPU workloads to actively manage rack-level energy consumption in real time. In doing so, the platform increases infrastructure utilisation within the facility’s existing power envelope and lowers the cost per unit of compute.

The joint proof of concept project will be deployed on the 

. The Karman platform has already unlocked 33% more compute capacity from existing power infrastructure at its first commercial deployment in North America, potentially translating into a $20M increase in revenue per 1 MW.

"We are excited to be partnering with Karman to leverage their innovative technology and deliver greater value from existing energy resources. For Aolani, this represents an opportunity to further improve the economics of AI workloads and reflects our commitment to continuously enhancing our AI infrastructure platform. By optimising how power is allocated and used, we can help customers scale their AI ambitions and strengthen our ability to deliver the compute capacity quickly without waiting on the grid,” said 

Nicholas Chia, Chief Executive Officer at Aolani

“Access to power is one of the defining factors in supporting AI adoption and the growth of increasingly demanding AI workloads. As we continue to advance alongside the latest generation of GPU systems, we look forward to working with Aolani to demonstrate how our Karman platform can fully utilize the power already available to data center operators and cloud providers,” 

Karman is an AI company providing dynamic power orchestration for AI data centers, enabling operators to better utilize the power already available to them. By embedding real-time visibility and millisecond control directly into power distribution equipment, Karman increases tokens per watt by 50% by unlocking stranded power. The Karman platform is built on a custom NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, and was previously embedded into smart meters to bring real-time visibility and power-flow control to the electric grid.


Where AI gets built in Asia. Headquartered in Singapore and founded in 2023, Aolani is backed by compliant and purpose-built infrastructure to deliver the performance capabilities for next-generation AI. Aolani’s AI factories enable organisations to build with confidence, scale ambitiously, and move at hyper-speed in the world’s fastest-growing AI market.

Aolani, Karman partner to unlock 50% more AI compute capacity with same provisioned power

Utilidata, a leader in embedded AI for power infrastructure, announced today its rebranding to 

, adopting the name of its power orchestration platform as the identity for the company as a whole. The new name reflects how the company has evolved to meet the needs of AI data centers.

The Karman platform, powered by a custom NVIDIA module, was first launched to unlock the stranded value of distributed energy resources and enhance grid resiliency. Over the past year, the same technology has found its most urgent application inside data centers where power availability has become the binding constraint on growth and concern for power providers.

“Our mission from day one has been to bring more intelligence and control to critical power infrastructure, and right now where our work is needed the most is in data centers,” said Josh Brumberger, CEO of Karman. “AI demand is easily the most pressing energy challenge. This name change reflects how our technology has adapted to meet that need.”

The Karman platform combines high-resolution metrology with local processing and AI and increases AI tokens per watt by 50% or more for AI data centers. Karman is embedded directly into power infrastructure to monitor power conditions in real-time, delivering unprecedented levels of visibility and control to unlock stranded power capacity and allows operators to fully utilize the power available to them. Karman’s 

 with NexGen Cloud is currently operating in an Enovum data center in Montreal to unlock stranded capacity.

“Karman is built to decode the most complex energy challenges of our time,” said Gary Hicok, Karman’s Executive Chair of the Board. “We’re building the intelligence layer that's currently missing in power infrastructure, whether that be the electric grid or data centers. The name Karman reflects both where we’re at today and where we may go next.”

Along with the rebrand, Karman has expanded its Board of Directors with the addition of Jeff Bladen and Dave Johnson. Bladen, who is the Head of Energy and Policy for Verrus, oversees energy strategy for grid-aware, flexible data center facilities. Johnson, the CEO of VoltServer, leads the development of digital electricity solutions to solve the world’s power distribution demands. Together, their expertise and decades of experience strengthen Karman’s ability to bring greater intelligence and control to the power infrastructure supporting AI.

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