Substrate AI partners with Orbital Materials to design its sustainable data center in Talavera de la Reina – Spain
Substrate AI has signed an agreement with US technology company Orbital Materials to design and build its first data center specializing in artificial intelligence (AI) in Talavera de la Reina, Toledo. This project has received a €20 million grant from the Castile-La Mancha government and a total investment of around €100 million.
One of Substrate AI’s main goals with this agreement is to make its new data center in Talavera de la Reina the first in Europe with a “carbon-negative footprint.”
The company said in a statement,
Thanks to the cutting-edge technology developed by Orbital Materials, the Substrate AI data center will incorporate groundbreaking innovations in the design and operation of digital infrastructure,
On the one hand, the new data center will feature an “advanced biphasic liquid cooling system”—developed in collaboration with Nvidia—that allows for much more efficient dissipation of the heat generated by the high-performance graphics processing units (GPUs) compared to traditional systems.
This solution facilitates the high-density deployment of GPUs, necessary for running large-scale artificial intelligence models, and “drastically” reduces power consumption, the company stated.
Furthermore, the center will integrate a carbon dioxide (CO2) capture system based on “advanced materials” designed with artificial intelligence and capable of absorbing CO2 directly from the air by utilizing the waste heat generated by the data center’s own operations.
Substrate AI emphasized,
This synergy between computing and sustainability makes the center an active infrastructure in the fight against climate change.
“Not only will it achieve carbon neutrality, but it will also achieve a net negative emissions balance, that is, it will contribute to reducing atmospheric CO2 concentrations while providing high-level technological services,”
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