Orbital Materials and AWS Enter Strategic Partnership
To develop and pilot technologies for data center decarburization and efficiency
PRINCETON - 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 decarburization and efficiency technologies, according to the official website of Amazon.
AWS will work with Orbital to utilize its proprietary AI platform to design, synthesize and test new technologies and advanced materials for data center-integrated carbon removal, chip cooling and water utilization. Orbital will pilot its integrated data center carbon removal technology by the end of 2025.
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.
“Our partnership with AWS will accelerate the deployment of our advanced technologies for data center decarburization and efficiency. Working with the market-leading AWS team will ensure that our suite of products in cooling, water utilization and carbon removal enables the next generation of data centers powering the AI revolution.” – Jonathan Godwin, CEO of Orbital Materials.
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.
"AWS looks forward to collaborating with Orbital and their mission to drive data center decarbonization. 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. Together, we have the opportunity to set new benchmarks for carbon removal and efficiency across the industry." – Howard Gefen, General Manager of AWS Energy & Utilities.
