Energy intelligence for AI data centers

This is what power costs in California right now.

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Jul 23–25, 2024 · CAISO NP15 · real-time

Then it hit $1,053/MWh.

Wednesday, 7 PM: about 25× a normal hour. Data centers ran straight through it and paid the price.

Not all compute is urgent.

Serving users can't wait. Training runs, fine-tunes and batch jobs can: they need to finish on time, not at a particular hour.

• Critical: one solid band that never moves
• Flexible: each block is a job that can

Fluxera sees it coming.

A day early, the day-ahead market flagged the expensive evening hours (shaded). Fluxera plans on that forecast, never on hindsight, and asks of every job:

1. Can it move? Deadlines and reliability come first.
2. Is later cheaper? Read against live market prices.
3. Is it worth it? Only after a safety margin for price uncertainty.

Lift. Shift. Set down.

17 jobs are lifted off the expensive hours and set down in cheaper ones. Same work, every deadline still met.

Replay · 72 hours of real prices · one 10 MW site

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saved as those three days played out, and 23% off the bill on the worst day. Decided on day-ahead prices, settled on real-time prices.

Today it recommends. Next, it runs.

1. Recommend Operators approve each move.
2. Execute Approved workload classes move automatically.
3. Coordinate Prices, scheduling and grid programs, optimized together across PJM, CAISO and ERCOT.