Amazon Web Services (AWS) has entered into a multi-year partnership with Orbital Materials on an AI-driven project to accelerate data centre decarbonisation, as it seeks to embrace a more sustainable business model.
AWS said that it plans to work with Orbital, which uses its proprietary AI platform to incubate new advanced materials and climate technologies, on the development of new technologies and advanced materials for carbon removal, chip cooling and water utilisation.
Its first product is set to be a carbon removal technology utilising a proprietary active material.
A pilot of this carbon removal technology will be unveiled by the end of 2025, Amazon‘s cloud-computing arm noted.
‘Advanced technologies’
“Our partnership with AWS will accelerate the deployment of our advanced technologies for data centre decarbonisation and efficiency,” commented Jonathan Godwin, CEO of Orbital Materials.
“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.”
Orbital plans to leverage AWS tools, including Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, for large-scale training of its AI models, as well as evaluate the deployment of AWS’s custom silicon, Trainium.
Orbital’s proprietary AI model, Orb, will also be made accessible to AWS customers via Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and AWS Marketplace.
‘Set new benchmarks’
“AWS looks forward to collaborating with Orbital and their mission to drive data center decarbonisation,” commented Howard Gefen, general manager of AWS Energy & Utilities. “Together, we have the opportunity to set new benchmarks for carbon removal and efficiency across the industry.”
Since launching its materials R&D lab in 2024, Orbital Materials, which was first established in 2022, has achieved a tenfold improvement in carbon removal technology performance – ‘an order of magnitude faster than traditional development and breaking new ground in carbon removal efficacy’, the company said. Read more here.
