DIMAAG applicable to the data centre industry, because both require very high power.”
What turned that engineering overlap into a business was a change in what the electricity grid would tolerate.
The power problem hiding behind AI“ The world changed the day ChatGPT was released, in November 2022,” Satish contends. Compute performance advanced rapidly in the years that followed. The electrical systems serving that compute did not. A conventional data centre draws power in a relatively steady way, while an AI factory behaves like a single vast machine whose thousands of GPUs accelerate and pause in synchronisation. Their individual swings do not cancel one another out. They combine into changes of tens or hundreds of megawatts within fractions of a second. Grid operators, who must keep supply and demand in balance continuously, are now asking large data centres to smooth those swings and to stay connected through voltage and frequency disturbances instead of dropping offline, a capability known as ride-through.
Texas has become the clearest test of that new relationship. ERCOT’ s NOGRR282 rules, which took effect on 1 August 2026, establish voltage- and frequency-ride-through requirements for what the grid operator calls Large Computational Loads. Two days later, Governor Greg Abbott directed ERCOT and the Public Utility Commission of Texas to pause pending data-centre interconnection approvals until projects complete a comprehensive audit. ERCOT was by then considering requests for roughly 474 gigawatts of new grid connections, about 90 % of it from data centres and more than five times the state’ s record peak demand.
For DIMAAG, the lesson generalises well beyond Texas. Electrical behaviour is becoming a condition of market access. A developer may have the land, the servers and the financing in place and still be unable to energise a site until the grid operator is satisfied it can connect safely. The projects that move fastest will be the ones that can demonstrate how they intend to manage power, not simply how much of it they have reserved.
“ By unlocking these capabilities, we have created a solution that works for both the grid and the data centre,” Satish adds.“ That is where the value lies.”
ZettaWatt™ A shock absorber for the grid DIMAAG’ s answer, launched in August 2026, is the ZettaWatt™ Power Platform: a modular, grid-to-800 VDC power conversion and stabilisation platform engineered to sit between the utility connection and the compute load.
In simple terms, the ZettaWatt™ platform works as an electrical shock absorber. When the AI cluster suddenly calls for more power, an actively cooled battery supplies the rapidly changing portion of the demand. When compute demand falls away, the same battery absorbs the difference.
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