Akash delivers diamond cooled servers to NxtGen
California-based Akash Systems has delivered the world's first diamond cooled NVIDIA GPUs to NxtGen, a large Indian cloud company.
Akash's proprietary Diamond cooling technology is projected to reduce data centre energy consumption and increase FLOPs/W by up to 15 percent per server in high data centre ambient temperatures up to 50°C (122°F), compared to standard data centres, which operate at 24°C to 29°C (75°F to 85°F).
Akash plans to release additional aftermarket Diamond Cooling solutions for other NVIDIA systems, including the Blackwell series.
"Diamond Cooling solves the two hardest problems in the AI infrastructure race – energy and capital efficiency – by improving Power Use Effectiveness (PUE) and rapidly densifying token output. Diamond Cooling raises the bar for performance and speed of datacentre deployments by significantly reducing power consumption and densifying server capacity," said Felix Ejeckam, co-founder & CEO of Akash Systems. "In a world where a one to two percent increase in compute is meaningful, a 15 percent increase in GPU compute is truly game-changing."
Diamond is the world's most thermally conductive material, enabling heat to be removed 5x faster than the current industry standard, copper. This technology, already proved in outer space and currently operating in active satellite systems, enables AI servers to perform at peak levels even in extreme heat, according to Akash.
As a new layer in the GPU cooling stack, Akash's Diamond Cooling solution is additive and complementary with existing air and liquid cooling technologies.
"At NxtGen, our mission is to build the most performant cloud backbone to power India's AI innovators. By integrating Akash's Diamond Cooling into our infrastructure, we are delivering a more competitive solution for our customers, while driving cost-efficiency for our bottom line," said A.S. Rajgopal, CEO of NxtGen. "Diamond Cooling is going to become part of every AI Factory's development strategy – with this world first deployment, NxtGen just took a major step ahead."
