Emerald AI on July 1 announced $24.5 million in seed funding and released results of a first-of-its-kind demonstration as part of EPRI's DCFlex Initiative in Phoenix, Ariz., alongside partners including public power utility Salt River Project.
The Emerald AI Conductor software platform “orchestrates AI workloads in real-time, enabling data centers to dynamically adjust their energy consumption and support grid stability while assuring acceptable AI compute performance. By intelligently managing energy consumption through software, AI data centers can bypass grid interconnection queues that can stretch 7-10 years or more,” the company said.
The seed funding is led by Radical Ventures, with participation from NVentures (NVIDIA's venture capital arm), AMPLO, CRV, and Neotribe.
The company's AI software “addresses an emerging challenge: the electric power system must keep up with AI's soaring energy demand. New US data centers seek 50-100 GW of additional power by 2030, but the deep deficit in available power grid interconnections will stunt AI innovation and U.S. competitiveness,” the company said.
Emerald AI Releases Results of Demonstration; SRP is Partner
Emerald AI on July 1 released results of a first-of-its-kind demonstration as part of EPRI's DCFlex Initiative in Phoenix, Arizona alongside partners including Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), NVIDIA, EPRI, and public power utility Salt River Project (SRP).
Emerald AI's Conductor platform demonstrated that an AI compute cluster of GPUs in a commercial data center can reduce power consumption by 25% for 3 hours as a precise response to critical periods of grid stress such as a summer system peak load event, while assuring acceptable customer performance for AI workloads.
Alongside its partners, Emerald AI is preparing for even larger-scale demonstrations in Phoenix and around the country.
