Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a multi-year partnership with Orbital Materials to accelerate the development of advanced technologies aimed at decarbonising and improving the efficiency of data centres. The collaboration will utilise Orbital’s proprietary AI platform to design, synthesise, and implement solutions for carbon removal, chip cooling, and water utilisation, with a pilot of the carbon removal technology set for completion by the end of 2025.
This partnership combines AWS’s industry-leading cloud infrastructure with Orbital’s generative AI capabilities, which have achieved a tenfold improvement in carbon removal material performance within just a year. “Our partnership with AWS will accelerate the deployment of our advanced technologies for data centre decarbonisation and efficiency. Working with the market-leading AWS team will ensure that our suite of products in cooling, water utilisation, and carbon removal enables the next generation of data centres powering the AI revolution,” said Jonathan Godwin, CEO of Orbital Materials.
As part of the collaboration, Orbital’s open-source AI model for advanced materials, ‘Orb,’ will be available on AWS platforms such as Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and AWS Marketplace. This marks the first AI-for-materials model to be hosted on AWS, offering customers in semiconductors, batteries, and electronics the opportunity to accelerate research and development in a secure, cloud-based environment.
Orbital will also utilise AWS’s advanced infrastructure, including Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, to train its Foundation Models at scale. Additionally, the company plans to evaluate AWS’s Trainium chips to optimise the cost-performance ratio for its deep learning workloads.
“AWS looks forward to collaborating with Orbital and their mission to drive data centre decarbonisation. 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,” said Howard Gefen, General Manager of AWS Energy & Utilities.
