Building the intelligent power-modulation layer AI racks are missing.
XMight Smart Energy Corp. is focused on active power orchestration at the rack level for AI data centers. As a Hardware-enabled SaaS, we provide the ORv3 / ORW open rack architectures a closed-loop control plane that delivers both grid compliance and compute headroom.
MISSION
We build the missing software layer between AI rack power and grid compliance — so the next 10 GW of AI capacity can deploy without breaking the grid.
THE PROBLEM
Two power crises inside every AI rack.
AI server workloads generate millisecond-scale power transients with instantaneous current peaks exceeding 2.5× steady-state load. To avoid tripping facility breakers, operators are forced into conservative power capping — stranding an industry-estimated 15–20% of GPU compute capacity at any given time.
The OCP ORv3 / ORW rack architecture distributes battery backup (BBU) across individual racks for energy efficiency, but provides no orchestration layer. On a grid sag, PSUs disconnect and BBUs operate independently; on grid restoration, PSU startup is hard-coded with randomized delay — taking seconds to minutes to fully recover. This is physically incompatible with the sub-second recovery now required by emerging North American grid codes (PFAPR).
Around 7:00 p.m. Eastern on July 10, 2024, a lightning arrestor failed on a 230 kV transmission line in the Eastern Interconnection, producing a permanent fault. Auto-reclose protection cycled six times within 82 seconds, each event depressing voltage to 0.25–0.40 p.u. in the local area. The cumulative disturbance caused approximately 1,500 MW of load to drop offline simultaneously — exclusively data center-type load, and disconnected entirely by customer-side protection schemes, not by utility equipment.
NERC published its formal incident review on January 8, 2025: Incident Review — Considering Simultaneous Voltage-Sensitive Load Reductions. The report's central finding: the grid has historically planned around large generator trips, but simultaneous load losses of this magnitude were never anticipated. As voltage-sensitive load (AI data centers in particular) continues to grow, this class of simultaneous disconnection now threatens system-wide frequency and voltage stability.
Which is why ERCOT and SPP will enforce NOGRR 282 in 2028:
- New data centers — must comply before they are allowed to interconnect.
- Existing data centers — are first in line to be disconnected when the grid is stressed.
WHAT WE BUILD
DPO — active power orchestration at the rack.
XMight's Dynamic Power Orchestrator (DPO) is a two-layer system:
Cloud-side prediction layer. Ingests millisecond-grade telemetry over Redfish / PMBus, predicts grid events and workload transients, and computes setpoints for the rack power shelf.
Rack-mounted hardware node. Pin-compatible replacement for the PMI module; coordinates BBU discharge and PSU output in real time to absorb grid transients.
DPO provides the intelligent power-modulation layer that ORv3 / ORW racks are missing — actively orchestrating BBU discharge to absorb workload transients, and bypassing the randomized PSU restart delay to deliver sub-second synchronized recovery that physically satisfies NOGRR 282 and the wave of grid codes following it.
WHY THIS APPROACH
Three technical paths. One that complies.
| Dimension | Traditional centralized UPS | Software GPU throttling | XMight DPO |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intervention layer | Facility-level | Compute-level | Power-level (rack) |
| Impact on AI compute | Zero impact | Forced GPU throttling — straggler effects and NCCL communication failures in synchronous training | Zero impact |
| OCP ORv3 / ORW compatibility | Decoupled from rack hardware | Requires deep integration with specific server vendor BIOS / BMC | 100% compatible, plug-and-play |
| PFAPR 1-second recovery | Compliant | Probabilistic in software; physically difficult to guarantee | Deterministic hardware-level compliance |
| CapEx / facility rework | Significant — requires battery room build-out plus double-conversion space | Zero hardware cost (but with implicit compute interruption risk) | Native at the rack; no large UPS rebuild required |
| Retrofit downtime (existing sites) | Months to over a year — disconnect main switchgear, rebuild distribution panels, transformers, and battery rooms; for hyperscale AI sites the hourly revenue loss alone is substantial | No physical downtime (pure software deployment) | Rack-level hot-swap — DPO Gateway is an OCP PMI-compliant pin-compatible module; install time measured in minutes per rack, no facility-level disconnection required |
DPO's choice: solve the grid problem at the power layer, inside the rack. IT and OT fully decoupled.
INDUSTRY CONTRIBUTION
Where we sit in OCP.
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OCP Startup Program 2026 member
One of a small global cohort of admitted startups, and the sole Asia representative in the current cohort.
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Contributor to the OCP Rack & Power working group
Advancing POM (Power Orchestrator Module) as the open standard for rack-level power orchestration — defining interfaces, control protocols, and compliance pathways. The XMight DPO Gateway is the first commercial implementation of POM.
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Presenter, OCP Global Summit 2025 Future Technologies Symposium
"The Active BBU: Dynamic Power Orchestration for Stable and Efficient ORv3 AI Racks" — the technical foundation underlying the DPO Gateway Specification and the commercial DPO implementation.
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Contributor, OCP Data Center Facility (DCF) LVDC Work Stream
Providing PSU front-end response timing and Post-Fault Active Power Recovery (PFAPR) gap analysis to the OCP DCF LVDC white paper effort — surfacing requirements that emerging large-load grid codes (ERCOT NOGRR 282, IESO Technical Requirements, NERC Large Load RG) impose on the AC-input ORv3 / ORW power-shelf class.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
Open standards win
We contribute to OCP because rack power specs should be open. Power orchestration belongs in a community-maintained spec, not a vendor moat.
Software closes the loop
The gap between GPU power transients and grid protection relays is a software problem. DPO fills it with workload-aware forecasting and millisecond-class control.
Compliance is a product
ERCOT NOGRR 282 turns grid compliance from a checkbox into a continuous operational requirement. DPO closes the loop on it.
PILOT DEPLOYMENT
Where we are.
DPO is currently in pilot deployment with a North American Edge AI data center operator. We are validating the architecture against ERCOT NOGRR 282 reference profiles ahead of 2028 enforcement.
Founded by Young Liang, 2022 · LinkedIn ↗
Reach the team at service@xmight.com or visit the contact page for grid framework coverage and a direct line to engineering.