LōD Technologies has been selected to pilot its flexible AI inference technology with Dominion Energy, one of North America’s largest energy providers.
The pilot follows LōD’s selection for the Dominion Energy Innovation Center’s 2026 Accelerate program, a startup accelerator backed by Dominion Energy. It will take place within the utility’s territory in the PJM electricity market, home to the world’s largest concentration of data centres.
Vancouver-based LōD develops energy intelligence technology for data centres and AI computing infrastructure. Its platform is designed to adjust AI inference workloads in real time as conditions on the electrical grid change—without compromising performance, uptime, or the service-level agreements relied upon by data centre and cloud operators.
AI inference, the process through which trained models respond to prompts and generate results, is projected to represent up to 80% of AI-related electricity demand. LōD believes making those workloads responsive to grid conditions could help utilities accommodate growing computing demand while creating additional capacity for demand-response programs.
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For data centre operators, the technology is intended to automate decisions about when compute and energy use can be shifted, reducing the manual intervention and performance risks that have traditionally made operators cautious about participating in flexibility programs.
“Flexibility is quickly becoming a requirement for the next generation of data centers,” said LōD chief executive officer Medi Naseri. “Regulators, policymakers, and utilities are increasingly calling for large computing loads to become more responsive and better integrated with the grid.”
Naseri said the pilot aims to demonstrate that compute flexibility can serve as a “practical, measurable, and scalable grid resource” without affecting reliability or customer commitments.
Dominion Energy serves a region experiencing some of the fastest data centre growth in the United States. The utility is looking to emerging technologies to help maintain an affordable and reliable electricity system as demand increases.
“Dominion Energy’s partnership with the DEIC allows us to identify and support innovative technologies and startups working to change the energy industry,” said Nathan Frost, Dominion Energy’s vice-president of new business and customer solutions.
LōD will use the pilot to test its technology in a live utility environment and demonstrate how AI infrastructure could become an active participant in grid reliability rather than operating solely as a fixed source of electricity demand.
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