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Butlr for data centers and AI factories

A thermal digital twin of your AI factory, live inside and outside every server.

See every risk to your compute, live, from one screen. Butlr brings continuous thermal sensing, live 360 video, and server telemetry into one view, so your team catches what takes GPUs offline before it does.

Thermal digital twin of a containerized AI data center module, showing heat across racks and coolant lines
Thermal digital twin of a containerized AI module (illustrative)
The blind spot

Your servers already watch themselves. Nothing watches the room around them.

Server management chips report what happens inside the box. The power path, the coolant loop, and the people moving through the hall sit outside it. That is where outages start, and where Butlr looks.

Inside the server
Utilization, network, chip temperature

Already reported by the server's management chip. Butlr brings it into the same view as everything around it.

Outside the server
Power connections, liquid, people

Unwatched between annual inspections and walkdowns. Butlr measures it continuously, from the white space to inside the rack.

Heat. Water. Load. Access.

Four risks take compute offline. See all four in one place.

01 Heat

Hotspots and fire risk

Loose, high-resistance power connections heat up under load cycling. Butlr watches the full power path continuously, designed to catch electrical faults before they escalate.

45%
of impactful outages are caused by power (Uptime Institute)
02 Water

Water and coolant leaks

Leak detection for liquid-cooled systems is in development on the same alerting platform, extending coverage from the power path to the coolant loop.

CDUs, manifolds, quick-disconnects
Thermal anomalies on surfaces and pipes, plus leak sensing
03 Load

Compute load imbalance

Training jobs spread unevenly across racks create hot racks and wasted capacity. Butlr shows server telemetry next to the thermal map, so heat and load are read together.

With Server Data from BMC
From the chips that already manage your servers
04 Access

Physical security

A single rack of GPUs can be worth millions, on site and in transit. Butlr pairs anonymous presence sensing with optional live 360 video across the hall.

Secure facilities and high-value hardware
Anonymous sensing, with optional live video
See it in under a minute

No rounds. No snapshots. Just the whole facility, measured.

Explore thermal views and BMC server telemetry together in the Butlr dashboard.

Product demo: BMC integration. Digital twin views are illustrative.
The thermal digital twin

Most digital twins are a prediction. Butlr is the measurement.

Manage the facility remotely with a view that is better than walking the floor. Every layer is live, and every layer sits in one dashboard.

Live thermal map
Per hall, per rack, and per U, from ceiling sensors to in-rack sensing.
Live 360 video, one click away
Switch from the thermal twin to a live camera view of the same spot.
Server telemetry alongside
Network and utilization data from the server management chip, in context.
Check the design against reality
Compare measured cooling against your CFD airflow model before go-live, then keep watching for drift.
Butlr dashboard showing a data hall with per-rack thermal maps, layer controls, and rack PDU temperatures
The Butlr dashboard: hall view with per-rack thermal maps and PDU temperatures
Power path coverage

See the blind zone, end to end.

Every mechanical connection in the high-current path can loosen and heat as loads cycle. Rack PDUs report current, not the temperature at each joint, and nothing reports the tap-off above the rack.

Technician scanning a server rack with a handheld infrared camera
364
days between annual infrared inspections
Industry practice is one electrical IR survey a year (NETA). Butlr watches every day in between.
Power distribution cabinets with doors open
Power cabinet switchgear

01 / 05

Power cabinet and RPP

Switchgear and breaker connections

The most upstream connections carry the most load, and a fault here takes down everything below it. Battery-powered sensors watch breaker connections inside the cabinet continuously, where inspections used to happen through a small window.

Examples in the field

What Butlr looks like inside a containerized AI module.

Butlr thermal sensor mounted beside chilled water pipes and a rack
Thermal sensor on the cooling loop
Wireless Butlr sensor mounted on a strut above overhead busway
Wireless sensor aimed at the overhead busway
Butlr in-rack sensor mounted in the rear of a server rack
In-rack sensing in the rear of the cabinet
Live 360 camera mounted on the front of a GPU rack
Live 360 camera on the rack
For finance and leadership

Less risk is cheaper capital.

Continuous monitoring reduces the risk insurers and lenders price in, and it pulls the commissioning schedule forward. The layer pays for itself fast.

2.9 mo
Payback on a 100 MW AI data center
Year-one benefit covers program cost
1.4 mo
Payback per 1 MW container module
Unmanned sites see the most value
~2 wks
Off the commissioning schedule
Each week of delay on 100 MW defers about $5.5M in revenue

Figures are modelled estimates from the Butlr data center ROI model, not quotations or forecasts of realized results.
The line-item model is available under NDA.

Built for secure, always-on facilities.

Camera-free sensing by design

Butlr thermal sensors capture heat, never images. Live video is an optional add-on you turn on where you want it.

Install without downtime

Wireless for the white space, wired PoE in the rack on the management network. No hall shutdown.

Alerts where you work

Per-zone thresholds, routed to the systems your team already watches.

Open by default

API-first, with integrations into building and facility platforms.

See your facility the way Butlr does.

Walk through the thermal digital twin of a running AI module, updating live, and see how heat, water, load, and access come together in one view.

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