US energy intelligence firm LōD Technologies has announced that it will pilot its flexible AI inference technology with major US utility company Dominion Energy.

The pilot will act as the centerpiece of LōD's selection into the 2026 Accelerate program, run by the Dominion Energy Innovation Center (DEIC) in Ashland, Virginia.

The project will see LōD work with Dominion to prove how AI inference workloads can shift in response to real-time grid conditions. LōD claims that its technology allows AI inference workloads to be grid-responsive, shifting compute in real time without impacting performance at the data center.

As part of the pilot, LōD will deploy its CLōD platform, which was launched in April. The platform works by shifting AI inference workloads by dynamically pricing compute based on real-time electricity prices and grid conditions, rather than physically rerouting infrastructure. The company claims that the approach requires no integration from data centers or cloud providers and currently manages more than 500MW of capacity, primarily through real-time ERCOT grid signals.

Nathan Frost, vice president of new business and customer solutions at Dominion Energy, said the DEIC partnership will help the utility "identify and support innovative technologies and startups working to change the energy industry." Frost said the technologies emerging from DEIC's Accelerate program can help Dominion "provide affordable, reliable, and increasingly clean energy" to customers.

“Flexibility is quickly becoming a requirement for the next generation of data centers. Regulators, policymakers, and utilities are increasingly calling for large computing loads to become more responsive and better integrated with the grid. LōD’s inference flexibility technology is coming to market at exactly the right time, enabling AI workloads to respond to grid conditions without compromising performance, reliability, or service-level agreements,” said Medi Naseri, CEO of LōD Technologies.

LōD Technologies is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, and works with data center operators, energy companies, and utilities across North America. Last year, the firm deployed its energy management platform across cryptocurrency firm Bitfarms' global data center portfolio. The platform provides real-time energy intelligence and operations management, which the company claims enables strategic energy decisions beyond price strategy and demand response.

Dominion Energy serves the Northern Virginia data center hub, the largest concentration of data centers in the world. In May, the company was acquired by NextEra Energy in one of the biggest deals the sector has ever seen.