Mitsubishi Electric invests in data centre optimisation platform Lucend
Fourteenth investment by ME Innovation Fund targets AI-driven efficiency in global data infrastructure
Mitsubishi Electric has invested in Lucend through its ME Innovation Fund, marking the fund’s fourteenth transaction since launch.
The company said rising digitalisation, including the rapid uptake of generative artificial intelligence, has intensified capital spending on data centres and increased pressure on operators to improve efficiency in energy, water usage and equipment performance.
Lucend’s Transparent AI platform enables operational optimisation by analysing key performance metrics across entire data centres, including energy and water consumption, carbon dioxide emissions and equipment utilisation.
These insights are drawn from more than three hundred billion readings collected from existing sensors, the company said.
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The platform integrates with current infrastructure without requiring new hardware and aims to improve uptime without disrupting operations. It also detects equipment malfunctions such as abnormal chiller temperatures and reduced efficiency in uninterruptible power supply systems.
Using a human-in-the-loop model, the platform provides suggested corrective actions to support operator decision-making. Mitsubishi Electric said the technology has already been deployed at major data centres in Melbourne, Singapore, Paris, London, Amsterdam and Chicago.
The Recap
- Mitsubishi Electric's ME Innovation Fund invested in Lucend.
- Lucend's platform analyses more than three hundred billion readings.
- Platform deployed in data centers in six global cities.
