{"id":110380,"title":"Marengo: Accelerated Data Center Design","tagline":"Marengo designs data centers at double the speed and half the cost with AI.","body":"Hey everyone 👋! We're [Emil Ares](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emil-ares/) and [Gad Marconi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gad-marconi/), co-founders of [Marengo](https://www.linkedin.com/company/marengox).\n\n**TL;DR** $6.7T is going towards data center capex up to 2030. It still takes 10-12 months to design data centers. Marengo is _the engineering firm for accelerated data center development._ Site Due Diligence through FEED and permitting design in half the traditional time and half the cost. We’ve developed internal AI design tools that our professional engineers use to accelerate their engineering design work. Customers receive validated outputs they can trust. Already working with some of the largest developers in the world.\n\n---\n\n**Our Launch Video: [https://youtu.be/57EbJ0Buz-U](https://youtu.be/57EbJ0Buz-U)**\n\n**Ask:** Are you a data center developer? Give us a site. Let Marengo show you what accelerated engineering looks like on one of your projects. Click [here](https://marengox.com/).\n\n**The problem\\[s\\]:**\n\nHuge **expenditure on design**: $6.7T of data center capex by 2030 - engineering design fees are a massive 12% of construction cost, meaning $800B in design spend alone.\n\nHuge **time waste**: engineering design takes 12-36 months (feasibility, due diligence, FEED/permitting design, detailed design); it’s done manually, meaning a design firm can only handle 3-4 different concepts per site, leading to suboptimal designs, worse decisions and higher risk.\n\n**The Solution:**\n\nAI alone doesn’t have the engineering, know-how or trust to be effective here. A step change is needed. Marengo is needed.\n\nTo customers, we’re **_the engineering firm for accelerated data center development_.** Internally, we have developed AI-native tooling designed for in-house use by professionals. These tools are:\n\n* **Physics-informed** - grounded in reality\n* **Deterministic** - the same specs will produce the same designs)\n* **Validated** - validated by our professional in-house engineers\n* **Data-driven** - we parallelise concept design generation, producing a virtually unlimited number of variations; we then run simulations to determine the best fit\n* **AI-native** - AI agents act as junior engineers accelerating manual processes so our professional engineers can focus on validation\n\n**How it works:**\n\nA customer gives us their plot of land; we leverage their heritage and requirements to deliver validated designs in **half the time** and **half the cost.**\n\n**Who We Are:**\n\n**Emil Ares** - Founded first company at 16, making six figures. Ex-Cambridge Physicist working on world's most powerful magnets (56MW) at the 1.4GW MagLab facility. Ex-UK Space Agency. Published researcher on AI for complex systems engineering design.\n\n**Gad Marconi** - Built and deployed on-site data center infrastructure at the 25MW Swiss Flumenthal hydroelectric plant. Ex-AI software engineer at Nuclear and Energy EPC. Ex-TU Delft.\n\n**Ask:**\n\nIf any of these describe you or your organization, we'd love to talk:\n\n* A neocloud, hyperscaler, developer or similar\n* A professional engineer working in data centers - architects, civil, mechanical, electrical; we’re hiring!\n\n---\n\nVisit \u003chttps://marengox.com/\u003e to learn more! Contact us at [contact@marengox.com](mailto:contact@marengox.com) ","slug":"SiK-marengo-accelerated-data-center-design","created_at":"2026-08-12T21:30:00.399Z","updated_at":"2026-09-19T08:39:42.176Z","total_vote_count":41,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SiK-marengo-accelerated-data-center-design","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":32981,"name":"Marengo","slug":"marengo","url":"https://marengox.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/60eafb41e958f2dbb87a17e5996bba09e7731f2f.png","batch":"Summer 2026","industry":"Industrials","tags":["Design","Energy","Architecture","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/32981"}}