Lucend shortlisted for DCD’s Mission Critical Tech Innovation Award

Lucend, an AI-powered intelligence platform for data center operations, has been shortlisted for the Mission Critical Tech Innovation Award by Data Center Dynamics (DCD). This nomination reflects Lucend’s commitment to helping operators run their facilities with greater efficiency, reliability, and sustainability while keeping humans firmly in control.

Lucend envisions a future where data centers worldwide operate as intelligent, resource-conscious ecosystems. With customers like Digital Realty, Lucend is helping lead the industry into a new era of high-performance, sustainable, and transparent digital infrastructure.

What Lucend does

Lucend tackles some of the most pressing challenges facing the data center industry—from rising energy costs and resource constraints to operational complexity and workforce shortages.

By analyzing billions of data points from critical mechanical and electrical systems, the platform provides operators with daily clarity into how their facilities are performing and where improvements can be made. Lucend illuminates optimization opportunities across cooling, power, and other mission-critical systems, helping teams harmonize performance and operate with greater confidence.

Product features

Lucend’s platform is designed to support operators—not replace them—with intelligence they can verify, trust, and act on.

Portfolio-level recommendations

Provide executives and operations teams with clear, prioritized actions to improve performance across entire portfolios of facilities.

Transparent AI

Every recommendation is backed by a visible, verifiable data trail that shows exactly why it works and what impact to expect. No black boxes. No hidden logic.

Human in control

Lucend surfaces opportunities, but operators decide if, when, and how to implement them.
“Lucend reads. Operators decide. Operators act.”

Seamless onboarding

Lucend uses the data centers already have. No new hardware. No IoT projects. No disruption, just rapid, reliable time to value.

Alongside optimization insights, Lucend’s prescriptive maintenance capabilities help teams detect operational risks traditional systems often miss, reducing downtime and extending asset life.

Impact

Lucend has delivered measurable results for facilities around the world:

• Energy Efficiency: Up to 35% reduction in energy usage, totaling 21,225 MWh saved
  
  
• Water Conservation: 28% reduction across multiple sites
  
  
• Operational Efficiency: 40% reduction in time spent on manual optimizations
  
  
• Asset Reliability: Improved health and uptime through predictive insights
  
  

Today, Lucend supports nearly 50 data centers worldwide, adapting seamlessly to both new and legacy environments across diverse climates. Operators benefit from simplified workflows, continuous optimization, enhanced reliability, and proactive risk management—all achieved without additional hardware investments.

Join us on our journey

We’re honored to be recognized by DCD and look forward to the results on December 11.Together with our customers and partners, Lucend is helping shape a future where data centers operate with greater efficiency, reliability, and sustainability, powered by transparent AI and guided by human expertise.