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Modius builds next-generation DCIM for modern infrastructure and AI workloads.

Our OpenData® platform unifies OT and IT, delivering real-time visibility and control across data centers and telecom.

11/04/2026

Last day of DCD Connect Virginia, and the Modius team is at Kiosk #51.

If you run a colocation data center, there’s still time to stop by and talk about what AI racks are doing to onboarding. What will a new customer’s footprint do to power and cooling before it goes live? Where is power tied up by overprovisioning? How do you catch problems early once equipment is running?

Modius OpenData is Next-Generation DCIM for your data center BMS. It also gives your customers remote visibility into their hosted equipment and more detailed power data for billing.

Find Jared Narbaitz, Craig Compiano and Mario Urzua at the kiosk this afternoon.

Thanks to DatacenterDynamics for hosting.

11/03/2026

DCD Connect Virginia starts today in Leesburg, and Modius is at Kiosk #51.

📅 November 3–4
📍 Leesburg, Virginia, Kiosk #51

If you run a colocation data center, our team wants to talk about the questions AI racks are raising at onboarding. What will a new customer’s footprint do to power and cooling? Where is power tied up by overprovisioning? How do you catch problems early once equipment is live?

Modius OpenData is Next-Generation DCIM for your data center BMS. It also gives your customers remote visibility into their hosted equipment.

Stop by Kiosk #51 today or tomorrow and say hello!

Thanks to DatacenterDynamics for hosting.

11/02/2026

A data center can hit its annual renewable target and still come up short at 2 p.m. on a Tuesday.

Spain has drafted rules that would require new data centers of 1 MW or more to match at least 80% of their hourly electricity use with new renewable generation, according to Data Center Dynamics. The rules aren’t final and don’t apply to US facilities, but they point to where energy reporting is heading.

Here’s how the hourly math works. A facility draws 10 MWh in one hour, so 8 MWh has to come from qualifying renewables in that same hour. If only 6 MWh qualifies, the facility is 2 MWh short, and extra solar output later in the afternoon doesn’t count toward that hour.

PUE doesn’t answer this question. It measures how efficiently a facility uses energy, not when it used it or where the power came from. Hourly matching means lining up interval meter data with utility, PPA, and onsite generation records, and those often sit in separate systems.

A practical first step: pick one facility and one week of data, pull the hourly consumption records and the generation records, and see whether the timestamps actually line up. Gaps and clock mismatches show up fast at hourly resolution.

The full breakdown, including a side by side of PUE and hourly matching, is on the Modius blog: https://modius.com/blog/hourly-renewable-matching-spain-data-centers/

10/30/2026

Modius will be at DCD Connect Virginia, Nov 3-4 in Leesburg. Find us at Kiosk #51.

If you run a colocation data center, stop by and see how Modius OpenData handles the questions AI racks are raising at onboarding: what a new customer’s footprint will do to power and cooling, where power is tied up by overprovisioning, and how to catch problems early once equipment is live. It’s Next-Generation DCIM for your data center BMS, and it gives your customers remote visibility into their hosted equipment too.

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10/29/2026

Selling DCIM gets harder when the platform only works with one vendor’s hardware.

Ours works with what your customers already own, across data centers, hospitals, manufacturing plants, retail edge closets, and colos. Our enterprise account reps are incented to work with partners.

Partners choose a referral, reseller, or agent track, and every track includes deal registration. You also get demo support, pricing tools, integration kits for BMS, EPMS, and ITSM, and training for sales and technical staff.

Learn more on our website.

10/28/2026

A rack PDU can show a healthy reading while the UPS or switchboard upstream is what’s blocking the next AI deployment.

In a typical AC design, power moves from the transformer to the main switchboard, UPS, power distribution, and rack PDUs. Each stage has its own capacity limits and its own set of racks depending on it. Cooling adds another set of limits on top. Nearly all the electricity IT equipment uses ends up as heat.

Questions to test your current monitoring setup:

→ Which racks would an upstream failure affect?
→ How much power and cooling capacity is available under required backup conditions?
→ Can you review past demand?
→ Can it connect existing systems and support DC power distribution or liquid cooling equipment?

Next-Generation DCIM connects BMS, EPMS, and IT data to the equipment each reading serves. Modius® OpenData® works alongside your data center BMS, bringing power, cooling, and IT data into one view from source to rack.

Read the full post on the Modius blog.

10/27/2026

Most teams know they need DCIM. Choosing one is the harder part.

Most demos look alike in the first half hour. The differences are in the details: which devices a platform can actually talk to, how deep the power and cooling data goes, and whether the data can move into the other systems your team already uses.

A few questions to bring to any DCIM evaluation:

→ Which protocols does it support out of the box? SNMP, Modbus, BACnet, and REST API cover most legacy and modern hardware in a typical facility.
→ Does it model the full power chain? That’s where stranded capacity usually shows up.
→ Does cooling monitoring cover CRAC, CRAH, chillers, and airflow, or only part of the picture?
→ Can it forecast power, cooling, and space needs before you commit to a new build or a new tenant?
→ Does it connect to your ITSM, CMMS, and BMS, or does it become one more silo?
→ What security controls are in place? MFA, LDAP, encryption, and audit logging are the baseline.
→ What does support look like after launch: 24/7 coverage, migration help, and SLAs?

Learn more on our website.

10/26/2026

A CDU rated at 2.5 MW carrying a 2 MW load looks like it has 500 kW to spare. That doesn’t mean a data center can safely add 500 kW of AI racks.

CDU monitoring tracks coolant temperatures, flow rates, pump operation, and alarms. It doesn’t show how much cooling capacity is actually available. A CDU can run normally while the facility cooling system behind it gets close to its limits.

Before adding AI load, operators need answers to three questions:

- How much usable cooling headroom is left, based on facility water temperatures, flow rates, and equipment performance, not the rating
- How much backup capacity has to stay in reserve for redundancy
- Which cooling loops serve the new racks, and how much headroom each one has

Next-Generation DCIM treats CDUs as capacity assets alongside chillers, pumps, BMS platforms, and electrical systems. Modius® OpenData® brings power, cooling, environmental, and IT data into one view, across equipment from multiple manufacturers.

10/22/2026

Rightsizing power circuits is one of the simplest ways for a data center to save money. Mel Melara, SVP of Data Center and Cloud at Bridgepointe Technologies, explains why.

A 30 amp circuit carries about 8 kW, but many circuits only draw 2 or 3 kW. You pay per kilowatt, and oversized circuits add up. Power monitoring at the PDU level shows what each circuit actually uses, and rightsizing those circuits can save millions of dollars over time. With AI racks now running at 80 to 90 percent, that visibility is a must.

From our DCD AI Week panel, The reality of running an AI data center, with Craig Compiano, CEO of Modius, and John Rhoads, CTO of Modius, hosted by Tam Pledger, Digital Content Manager at DCD.

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