Cato Digital

When existing data centers go under­uti­lized, new ones get built before they’re truly needed, with a huge carbon footprint. In response to this problem, Cato CEO Dean Nelson offers a simple solution: ​“We should fully use what we have built.” The company’s M9 software virtualizes power supplies in data centers, allowing their managers to take advantage of stranded power and bring on additional tenants. Cato also builds data centers, using clean energy, second life hardware, and the M9 power orches­tra­tion software to provide carbon-free cloud computing capacity to retail and wholesale customers.