Orbital Materials and AWS enter strategic partnership to develop technologies for data center decarbonization and efficiency
Dec 2 2024 – Princeton, NJ. Today, Orbital Materials (Orbital), a company that uses its proprietary AI platform to incubate new advanced materials and climate technologies, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, have announced that they have entered into a multi-year partnership to use AI to develop new data center decarbonization and efficiency technologies.
Orbital is utilizing its proprietary AI platform to design, synthesize and test new technologies and advanced materials for data center-integrated carbon removal and cooling technology. Together, AWS and Orbital will evaluate the scalability and performance of these new technologies in removing carbon and increasing efficiency.
Developing new advanced materials has traditionally been a slow process of trial and error in the lab. Orbital replaces this with generative AI design, radically improving the speed and efficacy of materials discovery and new technology commercialization. Its first product is a carbon removal technology utilizing a proprietary active material. Since establishing its lab in the first quarter of 2024, Orbital has achieved a 10x improvement in its material’s performance through the use of its AI platform – an order of magnitude faster than traditional development and breaking new ground in carbon removal efficacy. Orbital plans to deploy and test its carbon removable technology by the end of 2025.
Jonathan Godwin, CEO of Orbital Materials said:
Our partnership with AWS will accelerate the deployment of our advanced technologies for data center decarbonization and efficiency.
“Working with the market-leading AWS team will accelerate our development of products in cooling, water utilization and carbon removal.”
Orbital’s market-leading open-source AI model for simulating advanced materials, ‘Orb’, will be generally available for AWS customers via Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and AWS Marketplace. This marks the first AI-for-materials model to be on AWS platforms. Orb will enable AWS customers working on advanced materials and technologies, like semiconductors, batteries, and electronics, to access market-leading accelerated R&D within a secure and unified cloud environment.
As part of the collaboration, Orbital will pre-train and fine-tune its frontier Foundation Models on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, a purpose-built infrastructure for distributed training at scale. It will also evaluate deploying AWS’s custom silicon, Trainium, to improve cost performance for its Deep Learning workloads.
Howard Gefen, General Manager of AWS Energy & Utilities, said:
AWS looks forward to collaborating with Orbital and their mission to drive data center decarbonization, and efficiency.
“Through Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and AWS Trainium, we can accelerate the development of breakthrough sustainability technologies. By integrating Orb with Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and AWS Marketplace, we will enable sustainable innovation more widely.”
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