Powering the AI revolution

Intelligence to control the interface between the world's two most valuable infrastructure networks: power grids and data centers

A split image showing on the left a power line tower during sunset over open fields, and on the right a data center filled with server racks illuminated by digital graphics.

Emerald AI transforms energy-intensive data centers into AI-powered grid allies

Diagram showing data transmission from a power plant to data centers via AI processing.

The Emerald AI Conductor platform enables AI data centers to flexibly adjust their power consumption from the electricity grid on demand, orchestrating the computing loads of inference, training, and fine-tuning AI models across a network of data centers to bolster the power grid’s reliability while meeting strict compute performance standards.

Flexibility could unlock up to 100 GW, or more than a decade of U.S. AI data center growth and trillions in AI investment, without enormous investments in electric grids or power plants—advancing innovation and competitiveness, ensuring power affordability for communities across the country, and bolstering the reliability of the electric power system.

Results

  • NVIDIA: Results of Emerald AI Demo

    NVIDIA profiles its portfolio company, Emerald AI, and announces the results of a joint demonstration in Phoenix, Arizona, with Emerald AI, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Salt River Project, and EPRI.

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  • Announcement: Launch and Results

    Emerald AI unveils the results of its first commercial demonstration of real-world AI power demand flexibility to relieve peak grid stress in Phoenix and announces $24.5M in seed funding.

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  • Academic Article: Phoenix Results

    Colangelo et al., 2025 details the technical methodology and results of the Phoenix demo (preprint posted to the arXiv for early academic dissemination; article currently under peer review).

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Team

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    Dr. Varun Sivaram


    CEO and Founder

    A former Fortune 500 C-suite energy executive, senior U.S. diplomat, Rhodes Scholar, physicist, and author of three books, Dr. Sivaram is one of the world's foremost authorities on energy technologies

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    Professor Ayse Coskun


    Chief Scientist

    Prof. Coskun, Director of Boston University’s Center for Information and Systems Engineering, has pioneered the field of flexible AI and high-performance computing to bolster the power grid.

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    Shayan Sengupta


    Head of Engineering

    Shayan brings two decades of hyperscale cloud, AI, and hardware leadership, from Amazon to Intel, supporting infrastructure powering hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue across mission-critical workloads.

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    Aroon Vijaykar

    SVP Strategy & Commercial

    Aroon brings experience as the chief executive of AEE Solar, head of corporate development at publicly traded Sunrun, and PE investor at Partners Group to lead commercial strategy and partnerships.

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    Dr. Philip Colangelo

    Member of Technical Staff

    With a decade of machine learning expertise, Dr. Colangelo has a proven track record of delivering solutions across diverse hardware platforms, from data centers to client-side NPUs.

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    Chris Williams

    Member of Technical Staff

    Chris brings three decades of technical expertise in deep learning, distributed systems, infrastructure automation, and devops/mlops across currency trading, autonomous medical robots, and more.

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    Dr. Ciaran Roberts

    Member of Technical Staff

    Dr. Roberts is an expert in grid optimization
    and demand response systems, with over a decade of specialized expertise that includes leadership roles at SPAN and the Berkeley Lab.

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    Dr. Daniel Wilson

    Member of Technical Staff

    Dr. Wilson has published groundbreaking research in software power pathfinding for HPC systems since developing performance-aware site-wide data center power management in his PhD at Boston University.

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    Ethan Tiao

    Associate Product Manager

    A Stanford Master’s graduate in Computer Science, Ethan has developed software for a robotics startup and the U.S. Marine Corps, as well as helped to implement the CHIPS & Science Act at the White House.

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    Jack Megrue

    Chief of Staff & Business
    Operations Associate

    Jack joined Emerald after advising over $1 Billion across M&A and equity markets across the country and internationally with Barclays’ Global Power, Utilities and Renewables Group.

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Institutional Investors

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Select Individual Investors

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    Jeff Dean

    Chief Scientist, Google

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    Secretary John Kerry


    68th U.S. Secretary of State

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    Prof. Fei-Fei Li

    Professor, Stanford University,

    CEO, World Labs

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    John Doerr

    Chairman, Kleiner Perkins

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    Malcolm Turnbull


    29th Prime Minister of Australia

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    Kate Brandt

    Chief Sustainability Officer, Google

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    Rich Lesser

    Chairman, Boston Consulting Group

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    Tom Steyer

    Co-Chair, Galvanize

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    Mark Gallogly

    Co-Founder, Three Cairns Group

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    Chase Lochmiller

    CEO, Crusoe

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    Jonathan Frankle

    Chief AI Scientist, Databricks

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    Lukas Biewald

    CEO, Weights and Biases

  • Oliver Cameron

    Co-Founder & CEO, Odyssey

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    Kiran Bhatraju

    CEO, Arcadia Power

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    Professor Will Chueh

    Director, Stanford University Precourt Energy Institute

Advisors

  • Secretary Gina Raimondo

    40th Secretary of Commerce

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    David Rousseau

    President, Salt River Project

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    Arushi Sharma Frank

    Fmr Tesla Energy Policy Lead; CEO, Luminary Strategies

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    Tyler Norris

    Duke University

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    Sean Kelly


    CEO, Amperon

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    Anna Patterson


    CEO, Ceramic.ai

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    Astrid Atkinson


    CEO, Camus Energy

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    Gaurav Desai

    Google X

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    Isaac Brown

    Managing Partner, 38 North

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    Richard Stuebi


    Boston University

  • Frank Lacey

    Founder, Electric Advisors Consulting

Board of Directors

  • Rob Toews

    Partner, Radical Ventures; Founding Investor, Emerald AI

  • Markus Specks

    Co-Founder & CEO, Aventurine Partners

  • David Katz

    Partner, Radical Ventures (Board Observer)

  • Christina Buchanan

    Principal, NVIDIA NVentures (Board Observer)

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