Verdigris

Positioning note: Verdigris has moved. The brief listed it among general energy management candidates, and historically it was marketed as an artificial intelligence energy monitoring platform for commercial buildings. The vendor site read in this research pass presents it as an electrical monitoring platform for AI data centres. That is a substantial repositioning and it changes who should be looking at it. The company is active and the product is available, but a commercial office buyer evaluating Verdigris on the strength of older coverage will find a product now aimed somewhere else.

The technical differentiator is sampling rate and it is a genuine one. Verdigris states it samples power at 8 kHz against roughly 1 Hz for standard monitoring, and uses continuous waveform analysis to flag equipment degradation before threshold alarms would trip. It measures every circuit from main switchgear downward. The stated commercial outcome is recovering stranded capacity by validating safe operating limits, which in a data centre context means being able to load racks closer to design limits with confidence rather than leaving headroom on the table. That is a capacity argument, not an efficiency argument, and it is why the data centre pivot makes engineering sense: at 8 kHz the product is doing something closer to power quality and asset health work than to consumption reporting.

Hardware is part of the offering. The vendor lists EV2 Power Meters and EV2 Pro, and per circuit measurement across the power chain implies installed metering, although the site does not state outright that hardware is mandatory. A developer hub is linked, suggesting programmatic access exists, but no detail is given. Verdigris offers a free four week rectifier health audit and a pilot, and links to a Pricing and SKUs page, though no figures appear on the page read. The SKU framing plus named hardware models suggests a more product catalogue style commercial model than the pure subscription of most competitors here.

What Verdigris is not. It is not a utility bill management system: nothing describes invoice capture, validation or cost allocation. It is not a carbon accounting or ESG disclosure platform; no emissions reporting is described. It is not a benchmarking tool. It is not a building management or controls platform, and demand management, BMS integration, dashboards and mobile access are all absent from the page as described features. And it is not a general building fault detection platform in the SkySpark or Clockworks sense, which work across HVAC and mechanical systems from BMS data: Verdigris works from the electrical side only. Classified here as power monitoring rather than energy management for exactly that reason.

Verdigris now fits data centre operators, particularly those building or operating high density AI compute, where per circuit visibility and early electrical equipment degradation detection translate directly into avoided outages and recovered rack capacity. Colocation providers, hyperscale operators and enterprises running significant on premises compute are the natural audience. The free four week rectifier health audit is a well targeted entry point for that market, since rectifier failure is a known data centre risk, and it lets an operator test the claim on real plant at no cost. Organisations with critical electrical infrastructure outside data centres, such as hospitals, laboratories, semiconductor fabs and broadcast facilities, may also find the high frequency monitoring proposition relevant even though it is not the marketed segment.

It is a poor fit as a general energy management platform. An organisation that wants utility bill management, carbon reporting, portfolio benchmarking or sustainability dashboards should not shortlist Verdigris, because none of those are described as features. A commercial office or retail portfolio looking for consumption visibility across many small sites should look at Spacewell Energy, EnergyElephant or GridPoint instead. Buyers should also expect metering hardware procurement and electrical installation work, with the attendant need for licensed electrical contractors and possible outage windows to fit current transformers, which is a materially heavier deployment than a bill data product. Finally, anyone relying on older coverage of Verdigris as a commercial building AI energy platform should confirm current product direction directly with the vendor before investing evaluation time, because the public positioning has clearly shifted.