MCJ backs Hammerhead AI to boost data center compute

MCJ has announced an investment in Hammerhead AI, a company using AI-driven control software to unlock additional compute capacity within existing data-center power limits.

• Hammerhead AI’s ORCA software dynamically orchestrates rack-level power, GPU load, cooling, UPS, and on-site storage to reshape workloads in real time, enabling 20–30% more compute output from the same grid allocation and addressing low average data-center utilization of 30–50% documented by a 2024 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory report.
• MCJ participated in Hammerhead AI’s $10M Seed round led by Buoyant Ventures, backing founders Rahul Kar and Rajeev Singh, who previously built industrial control systems managing 8 GW of energy resources at AutoGrid (later acquired by Schneider Electric), positioning Hammerhead as a power- and OPEX-optimization platform for AI-intensive data centers facing grid and substation constraints in hubs like Northern Virginia, Dublin, and the Pacific Northwest.