Forget new power plants — Seattle startup Edo wants to turn your office building into one
The grid is buckling under AI's power demands. One Seattle startup just found the answer hiding in your office building.
Why it matters
As data center demand from AI workloads strains electrical infrastructure, non-traditional power solutions like demand-response technology are becoming critical infrastructure plays. Edo's virtual power plant model represents a new class of compute-adjacent infrastructure that could reshape how AI companies solve their energy bottleneck.
The key facts
4 to knowEdo spent 5 years developing commercial building-to-virtual-power-plant technology
Grid strain driven by data center demand and extreme weather
Utilities and building operators actively engaging with the solution
Commercial buildings positioned as distributed energy resources for grid stabilization
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Publisher excerpt: Edo spent five years building tech to turn commercial buildings into virtual power plants, and with the grid buckling under data center demand and extreme weather, utilities and building operators are taking notice.