WSJ says Turba Labs has raised nearly $52M to use data-center digital twins for AI-workload placement and unlock existing compute capacity

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The Wall Street Journal reported on October 6 that Palo Alto-based Turba Labs has raised nearly $52 million across seed and Series A financing. Its platform creates digital twins of existing data-center infrastructure, models how AI workloads behave across hardware and infrastructure configurations, and places those workloads on better-suited resources to improve utilization without simply building more data centers. The company was co-founded by former Meta engineering director Hans-Juergen Schmidtke and former SAP executive Patrick Jahnke and has about 65 employees across the US and Germany. The financing figures and claims about unlocking additional compute come from the report and company positioning; they are not evidence that global compute capacity has literally doubled.