ai& and Voltaiq have announced a partnership to deploy battery energy storage systems (BESS) across ai&’s artificial intelligence data centers in Japan. The collaboration pairs ai&’s sovereign AI compute infrastructure with Voltaiq’s Enterprise Battery AI platform, which tracks and analyzes battery quality, reliability, and safety throughout the full lifecycle—from cell design and manufacturing to system integration, commissioning, and in-field operation.
As AI workloads continue to grow, data centers face increased strain on local electric grids. Integrating BESS can help operators accelerate grid interconnections, lower peak demand charges, boost usable power capacity beyond nominal interconnect limits, and maintain uptime during grid disturbances. These benefits aim to protect against costly downtime, failed model training runs, and potential violations of service-level agreements. At the same time, the risk of battery underperformance, unplanned outages, and safety incidents—such as thermal events—remains a critical operational concern for modern data centers.
Voltaiq’s platform creates a unified digital record by linking every stage of battery development and deployment through a purpose-built data ontology. This common framework connects materials, manufacturing processes, testing results, operational data, and quality metrics, enabling consistent tracing and comparison of battery performance. By correlating field results with upstream design and production factors, the system can automatically detect anomalies and facilitate rapid resolution of quality issues—helping to ensure on-time commissioning, maximize asset lifetime, and maintain peak performance and safety.
“Data centers can’t afford to guess on batteries,” said Tal Sholklapper, co-founder and CEO of Voltaiq. “Our Enterprise Battery AI helps partners scale safely and profitably by selecting high-quality batteries, commissioning them correctly, and operating them at peak performance.”
David Bennett, co-founder and CEO of ai&, added, “Power is the defining constraint of the AI era. Voltaiq’s platform gives us confidence in performance and safety throughout the batteries’ lifespans.”
The initial phase of this collaboration focuses on ai&’s planned deployments in Japan, where data residency requirements and grid limitations make quality-assured, locally governed energy infrastructure especially valuable. Both companies intend to extend this model to additional sites, markets, and system partners worldwide.
Source: PR Newswire
