Orbital Materials, a company specializing in the development of advanced materials and climate technologies using Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have announced a multi-year strategic alliance to develop innovative technologies that enhance decarbonization and efficiency in data centers.
The collaboration will focus on utilizing Orbital’s AI platform to design, synthesize, and test new materials and technologies that drive carbon removal, chip cooling, and water usage optimization in data centers. Orbital plans to conduct a pilot test of its integrated carbon removal technology in data centers by the end of 2025.
AI for Innovation in Advanced Materials
The development of new advanced materials has traditionally been a slow process, based on trial-and-error methods in the lab. Orbital has transformed this approach using AI-based generative design, significantly accelerating the speed of discovery and commercialization of new technologies. Its first product, a carbon removal technology using a proprietary active material, has achieved a performance that is ten times higher than the initial benchmark since the opening of its laboratory in 2024, marking unprecedented progress in efficiency and speed.
Jonathan Godwin, CEO of Orbital Materials, highlighted the importance of this collaboration: “Our partnership with AWS will accelerate the deployment of our advanced technologies for decarbonization and efficiency in data centers. Collaborating with a market leader like AWS ensures that our products in cooling, water usage, and carbon removal will define the next generation of data centers driving the AI revolution.”
Open Technology for Sustainability
As part of the agreement, Orbital’s open-source AI model for simulating advanced materials, known as ‘Orb’, will be available to AWS customers through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and AWS Marketplace. This model will enable companies working in areas such as semiconductors, batteries, and electronics to access accelerated research and development tools in a secure, unified cloud environment.
Additionally, Orbital will pre-train and fine-tune its base models using the Amazon SageMaker HyperPod infrastructure, optimized for large-scale distributed training, and will evaluate the use of AWS Trainium, the AWS chip designed to enhance performance and costs for deep learning workloads.
Howard Gefen, General Manager of AWS Energy & Utilities, stated: “At AWS, we are excited to collaborate with Orbital on their mission to decarbonize data centers. Through SageMaker HyperPod and AWS Trainium, we can accelerate the development of innovative sustainability technologies and set new standards in the industry.”
A Step Forward in Global Sustainability
With this alliance, Orbital and AWS aim not only to optimize the sustainability of data centers but also to establish a new industry standard through technologies that combine efficiency, innovation, and carbon emissions reduction. By incorporating advanced AI models and cutting-edge tools, this collaboration promises to make a significant impact in the fight against climate change and the transition toward a more sustainable technological infrastructure.
This announcement reaffirms both companies’ commitment to sustainable innovation, marking an important milestone in the future of data centers and climate technologies.