◈ Utilities

Forecast demand.
Manage assets.
Spend less doing it.

Energy, water and telecoms operators handle large volumes of readings and run heavy forecasting and planning work, often on infrastructure sized for the worst case. Compute bills machines by the second at 30% under the leading cloud for the same specification, so forecasting and analysis can run as often as the network needs rather than as often as the budget allows.

Used by regional operators, energy retailers, network businesses and national utilities.

30%
Under the leading cloud on CPU instances
Per-second
Billing for forecasting runs
Complete
Change and access record
Configured
Residency you choose

What this looks like in practice

◆Smart meter and sensor data ingestion◆Demand and generation forecasting◆Asset management and inspection analysis◆Outage reporting and customer notifications◆Billing and account management systems◆Field workforce and job scheduling tools◆Regulatory and network performance reporting◆Smart meter and sensor data ingestion◆Demand and generation forecasting◆Asset management and inspection analysis◆Outage reporting and customer notifications◆Billing and account management systems◆Field workforce and job scheduling tools◆Regulatory and network performance reporting
What holds true here

Four things you stop arguing about

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Readings with a home

Cloud Services queues take meter and sensor data at volume; CosmoBase keeps it ready for analysis.

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Forecasts as often as needed

Run forecasting on large CPU or GPU instances by the second, at 30% under the leading cloud, and release them when done.

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Inspection by model

Analyse drone and field imagery on L40S and A100 instances, priced under the leading cloud on-demand for the same GPU.

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A record of every change

Who changed what in code, configuration and access, retained and attributable.

The shift

Analysis stops being rationed by capacity

Utilities collect far more data than they analyse, largely because analysis needs capacity that is expensive to keep standing. When capacity is hired by the second at a lower price, the data that has already been collected starts to earn its keep.

The usual arrangement
  • ✕Forecasts run on a fixed schedule set by capacity
  • ✕Inspection imagery reviewed by sample
  • ✕Meter data held but rarely queried
  • ✕Customer systems changed once a year
  • ✕Infrastructure sized for the worst storm
What replaces it
  • ✓Forecasts rerun as conditions change
  • ✓Every image analysed, by the second
  • ✓Readings that feed planning and reporting
  • ✓Customer systems improved routinely
  • ✓Capacity that rises with the storm and falls after
What you can count on

Stated plainly, and qualified

30%
Under the leading cloud on CPU
Same vCPUs and memory, cheapest the leading cloud match
30%
Under the leading cloud on GPU hours
Same GPU, on-demand price
30%
Under the leading cloud’s managed databases
Per database-hour
Zero
Commitments
No reservation, no minimum term
Closer in

Utilities, specifically

The storm night, handled

When weather turns, outage reports, customer notifications and revised forecasts all arrive at once. On Compute the capacity for that night is added by the second and released the next morning, at 30% under the leading cloud for the same machines. You are not paying all year for one night, and the record of what changed during it is kept.

Customers kept informed

Outage maps and notification services on Panel and Nexus, close to the customers checking them.

Assets understood

Inspection and condition models trained on GPU instances, run across the whole network rather than a sample.

Field tools that improve

Scheduling and job tools versioned in CodeGraph and shipped on an ordinary cadence.

Reporting without the scramble

Regulatory reports drawn from data that is already queryable, with the history to show how each figure was produced.

Against the leading cloud

Utilities on Compute, against the leading cloud

4 vCPU / 8 GB server
$0.0941/hr
Leading cloud $0.1344/hr · Its cheapest machine with 4 vCPU and 16 GiB
30% less
A100 GPU hour
$1.92/hr
Leading cloud $2.74/hr · Same GPU (A100 40 GB)
30% less
Database
$0.0112 / database-hour
Leading cloud $0.016 / database-hour · Managed database, smallest instance
30% less

Compared with the leading cloud's own published on-demand prices, US East. Every comparison.

Questions we are actually asked

Answers without the hedging

Do operational control systems need to move?+

No. Control systems usually stay where they are. Compute takes the data, forecasting, analysis and customer-facing work that benefits from capacity on demand.

Can we meet our regulator’s requirements?+

Residency, access records and separation are configured properties of your account. For any specific standard or attestation, ask us directly and we will tell you plainly whether we hold it today.

How do we handle large volumes of meter data?+

Readings arrive through Cloud Services queues and land in CosmoBase or object storage. Storage is priced on the pricing page; the 30% comparison applies to machines and databases, not storage.

Is this only for large utilities?+

No. A small retailer or community operator can start within the free allowances and pay by use. National operators run on the same platform and prices.

Other industries

Where else this goes

AI Agents

Run agents, the tools they call and the models behind them on one platform, billed by the token and the second, for less than the same work costs on the leading cloud.

Customer Acquisition

Host the landing pages, attribution pipelines and onboarding flows that bring customers in, and spend less on the infrastructure than you would on the leading cloud.

Marketing

Run campaign sites, personalisation, content pipelines and marketing data on one platform that costs less than the leading cloud for the same machines and models.

Lead Generation

Run the forms, enrichment jobs, scoring models and routing that turn interest into leads, for less than the same infrastructure costs on the leading cloud.

Sales

Run CRMs, sales data, call analysis and AI assistants on one platform, priced under the leading cloud for the same machines, databases and models.

Creator Economy

Host creator platforms, media processing, storefronts and AI tools on infrastructure that bills by the second and costs less than the leading cloud for the same machines.

Start where it matters most

Begin with one workload. Keep what you have running. Decide whether to continue once you have seen it carry something real.

No migration required to begin. Nothing to tear down if you stop.