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Demonstrating AI Grid Support with EPRI DCFlex

In an Oracle data center in Arizona, our software cut AI cluster power use by 25% during peak demand while maintaining stringent AI performance targets.

Demonstrating AI Grid Support with EPRI DCFlex

In an Oracle data center in Arizona, our software cut AI cluster power use by 25% during peak demand while maintaining stringent AI performance targets.

Expanding to the UK with National Grid

A UK-first live trial will show AI data centers adjusting energy use in real time, unlocking existing and grid capacity and faster connections.

Expanding to the UK with National Grid

A UK-first live trial will show AI data centers adjusting energy use in real time, unlocking existing and grid capacity and faster connections.

Launching the First Power-Flexible AI Factory with Nvidia

A coalition of leaders from the artificial intelligence and energy sectors—including NVIDIA, Emerald AI, EPRI, Digital Realty, and PJM—announced the world's first power-flexible AI Factory.

Launching the First Power-Flexible AI Factory with Nvidia

A coalition of leaders from the artificial intelligence and energy sectors—including NVIDIA, Emerald AI, EPRI, Digital Realty, and PJM—announced the world's first power-flexible AI Factory.

We Work with World Class Partners

What Our Partners are Saying

“Emerald AI is establishing the benchmark architecture that enables NVIDIA’s AI platform to function as a massive, flexible energy asset. This model will support communities, unlock underutilized grid capacity, and help make energy more affordable for everyone.”

– Marc Spieler,
Senior Managing Director of Energy, NVIDIA

"Compute infrastructure that is responsive to real-time grid conditions while meeting the performance demands unlocks a new model for scaling AI.”

– Pradeep Vincent,
Chief Technical Architect and Senior Vice President,
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

"Emerald AI demonstrates how innovative technologies can help us optimise the grid, enable increased investment in advanced computing, and deliver real benefits to the wider UK economy.”

– Steve Smith,
Chief Strategy and Regulation Officer, National Grid UK

"Emerald AI's innovative solutions provide a valuable opportunity to explore how flexible power management can support both our customers' growth and the broader energy ecosystem.”

– Chris Sharp,
Chief Technology Officer, Digital Realty

The infrastructure behind the infrastructure.

Emerald Conductor is the flexibility management platform for AI infrastructure. We connect utilities and data centers in real time, simulate a digital twin model of AI power, orchestrate compute alongside onsite energy, and verify performance—so AI can grow in harmony with stronger, more affordable grids.

Connect grids and data centers. Provide operators with AI demand visibility and enable data centers to respond to grid signals.

Orchestrate AI workloads and onsite energy to flexibly control power use, meeting grid needs while preserving AI performance.

Optimize across data center fleets, orchestrating spatiotemporal workload flexibility to support grids nationwide.

Verify performance with auditable M&V data and automated reporting, establishing data centers as credible grid resources.

What if the biggest new user of electricity–AI–could become the grid’s greatest ally?

AI Flexibility Can Unlock 100GW to Power the AI Revolution Today

Temporal AI flexibility

Briefly slow or pause batchable AI workloads when the grid is stressed and resume post‑event, all within SLA guardrails.

Spatial AI flexibility

Shift workloads across regions on fiber to where power is abundant — within latency bounds.

Resource flexibility

Dispatch batteries and other onsite energy alongside compute orchestration for maximum, reliable flexibility.

What if the biggest new user of electricity–AI–could become the grid’s greatest ally?

AI Flexibility Can Unlock 100GW to Power the AI Revolution Today

Temporal AI flexibility

Briefly slow or pause batchable AI workloads when the grid is stressed and resume post‑event, all within SLA guardrails.

Spatial AI flexibility

Shift workloads across regions on fiber to where power is abundant — within latency bounds.

Resource flexibility

Dispatch batteries and other onsite energy alongside compute orchestration for maximum, reliable flexibility.

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Proven in the Field

Our Arizona demonstration results were peer-reviewed and accepted in one of the world's top scientific journals, demonstrating the pioneering advances of Emerald's Conductor platform to make AI data centers flexible, reliable partners to the grid.

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Powering the AI Revolution

Emerald AI CEO Dr. Varun Sivaram shares how we can have it all: breakneck AI innovation, massive AI investment, and abundant, reliable, and affordable energy.

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Powering the AI Revolution

Emerald AI CEO Dr. Varun Sivaram shares how we can have it all: breakneck AI innovation, massive AI investment, and abundant, reliable, and affordable energy.

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Behind Flexible Computing

*TED Talk currently under production before public release. Emerald AI Chief Scientist and Boston University Professor Ayse Coskun explains how an AI for AI could actually save the grid.

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Behind Flexible Computing

*TED Talk currently under production before public release. Emerald AI Chief Scientist and Boston University Professor Ayse Coskun explains how an AI for AI could actually save the grid.

Connecting the Ecosystem That's Powering the AI Revolution

For Data Center Developers & Operators

Get to 'Power-On' in Months, Not Years. Accelerate your interconnection queue, upsize an existing connection, and turn your energy consumption into a monetizable asset. We make your facility a preferred partner for any utility.

For Utilities & Operators

Integrate the Future, Safely. Transform the largest new source of demand into your most valuable flexible resource. Gain unprecedented visibility, accurate forecasting, and dispatchable load to enhance grid stability and defer costly infrastructure upgrades.

For AI Innovators & Cloud Providers

Scale Without Constraint. Never let power availability dictate the pace of your innovation. Our platform ensures you have swift access to the energy you need to train and deploy the world's most advanced models, while assuring stringent AI performance standards.

For Regulators & Policymakers

Enable Innovation, Ensure Reliability. Accelerate the AI economic boom while strengthening grid resilience and protecting ratepayers. Our platform provides a powerful, market-based tool to manage new demand efficiently, achieving policy goals without relying solely on costly and slow-to-build infrastructure.

Meet Our Team

Where cutting-edge tech meets real-world power.

Solving the defining infrastructure challenge of our time requires a team that speaks every language fluently. We have united the architects of hyperscale cloud infrastructure, leading AI systems researchers, senior grid scientists, and the top-level diplomats and executives who have shaped global energy policy.

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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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 and 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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Sarah Soares

Member of Technical Staff

Sarah Soares is a member of Emerald AI’s technical team, where she contributes her experience in cloud and AI infrastructure. She earned her undergraduate degree in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

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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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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 implement the CHIPS & Science Act at the White House.

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Ethan Levine

Member of Technical Staff

Ethan Levine is a member of Emerald AI’s technical team and is currently pursuing a computer engineering degree with a concentration in machine learning at Boston University, where he was an undergraduate researcher.

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