Developed within Carbon13 · Cambridge University Venture Builder

Resilience intelligence for data centres

Sono gives data centre owners and operators a single platform to track and manage asset resilience across the full lifecycle from site selection to daily operations.

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Power
Grid capacity, reliability, carbon intensity
Climate
Free cooling hours, heat drift, water stress
Compliance
EnEfG, regulatory drift, audit readiness
Infrastructure
Equipment health, failure prediction, PUE
Adaptability
Stranded-asset exposure, retrofit readiness
Product

Resilience is not a snapshot.

Sono works before capital is committed, during operations, and as conditions change. Each phase adds a layer of intelligence.

Site Intelligence

The same plot can look very different depending on what grid capacity is actually available, whether the water basin is under stress, or how many competing facilities are already queued for permits nearby. Sono combines those signals into a single score, calibrated against a growing reference population of European sites, so you can compare candidates on a common basis before committing capital.

No instrumentation required. Relevant for site selection, acquisition due diligence, and portfolio reviews.

Existing DCs
5
monitored
Candidates
3
under eval.
Avg score
74
sono
Layers
9
active
Data Layers
Your DCs
Existing DCs
5
Candidates
3
Heat island
est.
IX points
Environment
Rivers
1240
Reservoirs
44
Power plants
62
Grid substations
187
HV power lines
341
Selected site
FRA-North-03
Score 87 · High
Eschborn, Hesse
87 FRA-North-03 71 RHN-East-01 58 HAN-West-06 sono. Frankfurt Rhine-Main + - 15 km
FRA-North-03
Eschborn, Hesse
50.14°N, 8.56°E · 6.8 ha
87
Resilience score
Power 91
380kV line 0.9km · dual feed
Climate 82
3,540 free cooling hrs/yr
Compliance 78
EnEfG compliant · 1 open item
Infra 90
Low seismic · no flood zone
Adaptability 71
Liquid cooling ready · partial
Top ranked
Best grid access in portfolio. Taunus foothills reduce UHI exposure. Minor EnEfG gap addressable pre-build.

Continuous Intelligence

A facility built for 2018 climate assumptions is not the same facility in 2025. Free cooling hours shrink. Grid carbon intensity shifts. EnEfG deadlines approach. Sono tracks the gap between what an asset was designed for and what it is actually operating in, and translates that gap into a cost that appears on no balance sheet today.

Portfolio-level. No site visits. Relevant for asset managers, fund operators, and ESG teams who need to know where exposure is building before it becomes a write-down.

sono · Continuous Intelligence · FRA-North-03
Stranded-asset signal
Free cooling hours down 18% since design baseline. Cost of gap: €214k/yr at current energy prices.
Summer ambient has exceeded the 2017 design assumption of 32°C on 61 days this year, vs. 14 days in the baseline period. At current PUE trajectory, the facility will miss the 2027 EnEfG target without active intervention.
Climate drift vs. design +2.4°C avg summer ambient above 2017 baseline
EnEfG compliance gap PUE 1.43 target 1.30 by Jan 2027 · 26 months
Grid carbon intensity 118 g/kWh ↓ 14% vs. last month · renewable share rising

Operational Intelligence

Predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, and setpoint optimisation delivered to operations teams in plain language. Sono reads your existing historian, detects failure modes before alarms fire, traces root cause to specific equipment, and surfaces ranked recommendations with a confidence score.

No new hardware. No integration project. Historian-native. Physics-constrained so no physically impossible setpoint can ever be suggested.

sono · MXP-Edge-07 · 06:04
Anomaly detected · Chiller 1 · 06:00
Recommendation · 94% confidence
Raise Chiller 1 setpoint: 6.0°C → 8.5°C
Valve response lag detected. Current setpoint is below thermal floor given ambient conditions and IT load. Adjustment remains within safe operating envelope. Estimated compressor load reduction: 3.2% on this circuit.
Confidence 94%
Est. saving 3.2%
Reversible Yes
Traction

Validated demand.

Market validation across operators, OEMs, MEP consultants and engineering firms in Europe.

215
Discovery conversations with operators, OEMs and consultants
5
Ongoing technical and commercial co-creation partnerships
4
Active pilot discussions with colocation operators
Team

Founding team

Three co-founders combining ML, energy infrastructure and commercial execution.

Harit Soni

Harit Soni

Co-founder, Product Strategy

Two-time founder. Raised $22M. 15+ years building and scaling cleantech, IoT and AI across Asia, the UK and North America.

Johannes Parzonka

Johannes Parzonka

Co-founder, Commercial

12+ years commercial leader. Former CEO of a green-gas spin-off. Led M&A across wind, PV and biomethane.

Caterina Giacomelli

Caterina Giacomelli

Co-founder, Technology

Physicist and Data Scientist. 10+ years experienced in signal processing & ML, IoT monitoring and industrial processes.

Contact

Work with us on an early pilot

Data centres carry risk across five dimensions simultaneously. The data to track most of it already exists. Sono reads it, structures it, and gives your team something to act on.

We work with colocation operators, infrastructure fund managers, and OEM partners across Europe.

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