Karman: Embedded power measurement and control for data centres

Karman, formerly Utilidata, develops embedded power-analysis and control technology for data centres, building on its earlier smart-meter and grid applications.

Summary

Best for
Data-centre power-infrastructure teams integrating detailed measurements with workload controls.
Less suited to
A standalone retail submeter or assuming every historical utility pilot is a current off-the-shelf product.
Deployment
Custom NVIDIA-based computing embedded in electrical infrastructure, with integration software.
Data in
High-resolution electrical measurements and infrastructure operating information.
Pricing
The reviewed pages offer contact and developer-kit enquiries rather than a published standard tariff; commercial scope depends on the infrastructure integration.

Overview

Karman is the current name of the company previously known as Utilidata. Its September 2026 announcement explains that the company adopted the name of its existing platform as its focus expanded into AI data centres. The technology combines electrical measurement with local processing and control, aiming to make better use of available power capacity.

The current product description places that technology inside data-centre power infrastructure. This is a different deployment from attaching a general-purpose building meter to a dashboard: the measurement stream is intended to inform low-latency operational decisions around computing loads and the electrical equipment supplying them.

Offering

The Karman developer-kit page describes access to active, reactive and apparent power, harmonic distortion, power factor and power forecasts. It identifies power-distribution units and higher-density power trays as potential integration locations. The product is therefore aimed at infrastructure and application development teams, rather than a consumer purchasing a finished wall-mounted display.

The same page introduces the Power Aware Module, or PAM, as an open-source research preview. Its minimal Kubernetes reference implementation illustrates how power information can connect with job schedulers, monitoring and power-capping interfaces. The distinction between a developer resource and a completed production integration matters: the preview demonstrates an implementation approach without establishing support for every server or rack configuration.

Products and platforms

  1. Karman power orchestration

    Embedded power platform

    Electrical measurement and local control for data-centre infrastructure.1

  2. Karman smart-meter integration

    Historical utility application

    Aclara partnership documented in 2024; distinct from current data-centre product focus.4

Technology

Karman's current platform page describes local processing on a custom NVIDIA module embedded in power infrastructure. Its purpose is to make detailed electrical information available close to the equipment being managed, rather than waiting for a coarse periodic energy report. The documented outputs include both measurement-derived insight and control of supported infrastructure.

The developer material connects that electrical information with software components such as Kubernetes and workload schedulers. Earlier utility work with Aclara embedded the platform in smart meters. These are separate equipment integrations using related technology; the meter partnership does not establish a universal register map or an unrestricted control interface for all devices carrying the platform.

Markets

The current company announcement identifies a NexGen Cloud deployment operating in an Enovum data centre in Montreal. This gives a concrete setting for the company's present focus on power capacity within computing infrastructure. The current product page qualifies its capacity-improvement estimate as dependent on the customer's electrical and server configuration, so that figure is not treated here as a guaranteed result.

Historical utility research remains relevant to the technology's background. A 2025 EPRI and Southern California Edison demonstration used simulated household data to investigate local distributed-energy-resource decisions. Those reported results are demonstration outcomes, not evidence of identical savings across operating customer homes.

Company

The company's current official LinkedIn profile gives 2012 as its founding year and Ann Arbor, Michigan, as headquarters. Its May 2026 funding announcement also explicitly identifies the Ann Arbor headquarters and names Josh Brumberger as Chief Executive Officer. The company originally operated under the Utilidata name.

On 17 September 2026 it announced the change to Karman, retaining the technology lineage from grid applications while emphasizing data-centre power infrastructure. The former website and LinkedIn address now redirect to the Karman identity. The Karman name now identifies both the business and its power-orchestration technology.

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References

  1. Karman platform introduction, redirected from Utilidata (opens in a new tab)
  2. Utilidata May 2026 funding and headquarters (opens in a new tab)
  3. Official company LinkedIn, redirected to Karman (opens in a new tab)
  4. Aclara meter-embedded Karman partnership (opens in a new tab)
  5. EPRI and SCE distributed-energy demonstration (opens in a new tab)
  6. Karman current company homepage (opens in a new tab)
  7. Company-issued 17 September 2026 rebranding announcement (opens in a new tab)
  8. Karman developer kit and PAM research preview (opens in a new tab)

This profile does not imply a commercial relationship with Karman and may contain inaccuracies.