In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, Orbital Materials has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for a multi-year partnership in an effort to accelerate development and deployment of materials that promise to cut carbon emissions through advanced cooling systems and improved water efficiency, key drivers for future generations of data centers.
AI as innovation: The Next Frontier of Material Science
At the heart of this partnership is Orbital Materials’ proprietary AI platform, which has made tremendous breakthroughs in materials discovery. The AI-based model enables Orbital to design, test, and pilot cutting-edge materials at an unprecedented scale. The company has reported tenfold improvement in material performance for carbon removal technologies against traditional discovery methods since its lab launch early this year 2024.
As for the sayings by the company CEO Jonathan Godwin in a statement on the importance of the partnership with AWS,
“Our partnership with AWS will advance our portfolio of revolutionary technologies on decarbonization and efficiency of data centers.“Our range of products will be energizing the next generation of data centers for the AI revolution with the leading market AWS team.
By the end of 2025, Orbital Materials plans to pilot its proprietary active material specifically designed for integrated carbon removal in data centers.This is one step closer to solving environmental issues caused by increasing demands for data center infrastructure.
Open-source AI visions revolutionize R&D
This strategic collaboration will deploy Orbital Materials’ open-source AI model, ‘Orb,’ on AWS platforms including Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and the AWS Marketplace. The model is the first AI-for-materials model deployed on the AWS platform to enable companies and researchers to power innovation tools at accelerating R&D for cutting-edge materials such as semiconductors, batteries, and electronics.
Orb is now available on AWS platforms, building the latest technology in AI to bring breakthroughs in sustainability and performance to organizations across different industries.
Howard Gefen, AWS General Manager of Energy & Utilities, highlighted a broader impact as well in this initiative:
“Together, we have the opportunity to set new benchmarks for carbon removal and efficiency across the industry.” Moreover, this collaboration will tap AWS state-of-the-art training infrastructure and more to accelerate deep learning workloads at Orbital. Besides this, the company will test the suitability of AWS Trainium in furthering AI-powered discovery capabilities for materials.
Sustainability of Data Centers
Data centres are important drivers of the digital economy, but they consume a sizeable portion of the world’s overall energy consumption and carbon emissions.The partnership between Orbital Materials and AWS addresses these challenges by developing carbon removal solutions and optimizing resources that integrate them.
Orbital’s carbon removal technology will pilot test late 2025, and it may well become the industry lifeline, providing a scalable solution to curtail the environmental footprint of the data centers.
Hence, this effort is of high significance as reliance on AI and cloud computing is increasing, demanding urgent need for efficient yet sustainable data center infrastructure. Orbital Materials’ innovation can be seen as a future possibility in the next generation of data centers which can gear up to face the AI revolution with environmental sustainability in mind.
Scaling Up Material Innovation
Orbital Materials is one of the leading material science players that uses artificial intelligence in its discovery process.The company can develop and test materials quickly without much loss of time or resources relative to more conventionally obtained material discovery utilizing its proprietary AI platform.
In line with this, since 2024 Orbital had a positive push on materials in key areas such as carbon removal and chip cooling to make improvements with water efficiency in the sustainable data center. Orbital already doubled material performance through AI-powered discovery.
This aggressive pace reveals the transformative power of AI in materials science, an enabling factor for Orbital to deliver effective yet scalable and commercially feasible solutions.
The contribution of AWS to Scalability Innovation
Whereas AWS provides the strategic foundation by cloud infrastructure, via services such as Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and HyperPod, AWS offers a powerful ecosystem that trains, deploys, and scales AI models.These tools are crucial in helping enhance Orbital’s ability to accelerate R&D and bring its advanced materials to market.
In line with the vision of AWS, to foster innovation and sustainability, this open-source AI model by Orb is perfectly aligned with the platforms offered by AWS. In that regard, making these high-tech tools available to a greater audience, AWS and Orbital will be able to catalyze industry-wide transformations in materials science.
Setting the stage for industry-wide transformation
This partnership between Orbital Materials and AWS is a giant leap for the sustainability innovation that will take place in the data center industry. It will bring together AI-driven materials discovery and the leading cloud infrastructure of AWS to set new milestones for efficiency and decarbonization.
Orbital Materials’ piloting of its proprietary carbon removal technology by late 2025 will be a critical milestone, showcasing the potential of AI to drive transformative change in one of the most resource-intensive sectors.
As data centers continue to power the digital economy, the need for sustainable solutions has never been more urgent. But more important, in the case of Orbital Materials collaborating with AWS, it answers that challenge, and here is to the future when advanced materials make for better efficiency in and environmentally friendly digital infrastructure.
In this age wherein AI and sustainability converge, one of the greatest collaborations between Orbital Materials and AWS best explains how innovation leads to a better future.