GridCare Inc., a startup streamlining grid connections for AI data centers, has raised $64 million in a Series A round led by early Nvidia backer Sutter Hill Ventures. The round included billionaire investor John Doerr, power utility National Grid, and Stanford University. The company spun off from Stanford’s Sustainability Accelerator last year.
GridCare’s platform, GridCARE Energize, uses AI to identify underutilized grid infrastructure, reducing the need for costly hardware upgrades. It analyzes quadrillions of grid conditions, including residential power usage, outages, and weather.
The software maps suitable construction sites for data center investors and highlights areas with limited capacity that could use flexible resources like batteries and solar panels. Utilities can also use it to manage power usage and grid reliability.
GridCare partnered with Portland General Electric last year to connect five data centers, speeding the project by years and unlocking 400 megawatts. It now supports projects totaling 2 gigawatts across a dozen markets.
“The largest source of new power for the AI economy isn’t waiting to be built,” said co-founder Ram Rajagopal. “It’s already in the ground, hidden in the grid we already have.”