WHO
Founded by two researchers from MIT, Ferveret reduces the amount of energy and water required to cool the chips that power AI.
WHAT
Today, around one-third of data center electricity is devoted to cooling the chips that run AI models. That’s the process Ferveret is working to make more efficient. The startup, founded by Reza Azizian, a former MIT postdoc in nuclear engineering, and Matteo Bucci, MIT’s Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, is adapting an approach from nuclear reactors to cool chips using no water and significantly less electricity. The company’s cooling system submerges computer servers in a specialized liquid that absorbs heat much more efficiently than air from a fan. What makes the solution different from other liquid cooling systems are the bubbles: Ferveret’s Adaptive Phase Cooling (APC) solution produces much smaller bubbles at the surface of the server, which detach more frequently, accelerating the heat transfer process. Ferveret delivers its APC system in small boxes, each of which houses one server. The founders say their modular systems make it easier to deploy the system and simplify maintenance. “Our goal is to make data centers as sustainable as possible and help them use every single watt of power to generate tokens, which are the most useful outputs,” Azizian said. “Our system enables the operation of more powerful chips, it helps data centers waste a lot less energy, and it accomplishes all that with zero water consumption.”
WHERE
Ferveret, San Jose, CA
WHY
The rise of AI is riding on the back of an enormous data center expansion, and the energy demand of these centers is growing faster than traditional cooling methods can handle. This new approach directly tackles several emerging bottlenecks.
WHEN
Ferveret is currently part of Nvidia’s Inception program for startups. It is already testing its solutions with companies including CleanSpark, the data center developer and operator, as well as FuriosaAI, an AI accelerator company, and Switch, a data center operator in the U.S.
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