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Phaidra and Aligned Data Centers Partner to Empower Operations Teams and Strengthen Data Center Reliability with AI
Phaidra and Aligned Partner to Empower Operations Teams and Strengthen Data Center Reliability with AI
September 29, 2026
11 August, 2026
InfraPartners turns to AI automation as data centre buildout strains skilled labour
InfraPartners and Phaidra partnership will combine factory-built infrastructure with AI-based cooling and operational controls as developers face growing pressure on engineering, construction and power resources.
11 August, 2026
InfraPartners and Phaidra Partner to Integrate AI Agents With Prefabricated AI Factories, Maximizing Power for Compute Through Advanced Cooling Control and Real-Time Facility Intelligence
Collaboration combines InfraPartners’ prefabricated AI data center solutions with Phaidra’s agentic technology to unlock greater productivity and speed across the design, build and operations of AI factories
25 March, 2026
America's Top GreenTech Companies of 2026
Phaidra recognized by TIME as one of America’s Top GreenTech Companies of 2026. Companies were ranked based on positive environmental impact, innovation, and financial strength.
18 March, 2026
Backed by Nvidia, Seattle’s Phaidra targets data center overheating with proactive AI
Phaidra, a startup using artificial intelligence to make data center operations more energy efficient, this week announced key collaborations with Nvidia, CoreWeave and Applied Digital.
16 March, 2026
NVIDIA Releases Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory Reference Design and Omniverse Digital Twin Blueprint With Broad Industry Support
Phaidra joins contributors to NVIDIA's Vera Rubin DSX architecture.
16 March, 2026
Phaidra, CoreWeave and Applied Digital Pioneer NVIDIA Max-Q AI Factories with Agentic Liquid Cooling Management
Phaidra today announced a groundbreaking methodology to drastically improve the thermal stability of liquid-cooled AI data centers. By successfully leveraging AI-driven, feed-forward control systems on production NVIDIA Grace Blackwell platforms, the collaboration is paving the way for the future of “DSX AI factories”.
11 March, 2026
Salute and Phaidra Partner to Deliver Industry-First Solution that Eliminates Key Obstacles to Scaling AI Computing
Integrated solution enables companies to accelerate and scale high-density data centers while also mitigating risk, optimizing operations and increasing energy efficiency.
04 March, 2026
Phaidra Launches AI Platform to Operate AI Factories at Scale
At this year’s Nvidia GTC26 conference in San Jose, Phaidra launches its AI platform Phaidra Prism designed to accelerate data center operations and meet the demand of AI workloads.
05 February, 2026
UAE Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, Khazna, and Agility Announce Pilot to Implement Phaidra AI
Phaidra, Khazna Data Centers and Agility announce a pilot with the Ministry of Energy & Infrastructure to implement Phaidra's AI technology to accelerate energy efficiency across data centers and district cooling operations in the UAE.
28 November, 2025
NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint - Phaidra enabling gigawatt-scale AI factories
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang introduces NVIDIA Omniverse DSX, a comprehensive, open blueprint for designing and operating gigawatt-scale AI factories with Phaidra AI agents continuously optimizing power, cooling and workloads, turning the AI factory into a self-learning system that boosts grid flexibility, resiliency and energy efficiency.
01 November, 2025
Phaidra raises $50M to help AI data centers ‘run smarter, not just harder’ by boosting energy efficiency
Geekwire's summary of the recent Phaidra Series B and the continued development of AI agents for AI factories.
01 October, 2025
Series B Round Secured: $50M investment led by Collaborative Fund
Phaidra's Series B funding round has closed at over $50M investment raised. Led by the Collaborative Fund with other investors including Index Ventures, NVIDIA, Helena and the Sony Innovation Fund.
09 September, 2025
Phaidra Included as 1 of 10 Ecosystem Specialists for AI Factory Operations
Phaidra plays a critical role in solving a fundamental challenge AI Factories face: how to dynamically optimize the power and cooling systems to maximize intelligence (token) generation.
18 March, 2025
Agentic AI to Optimize AI Factory Operations
NVIDIA has announced a partnership with Phaidra to integrate reinforcement-learning AI agents in the Omniverse. These agents will allow for precision cooling control to better handle dynamic AI workloads. Read more about Phaidra’s part to play in the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for AI factory design.
27 August, 2024
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres Collaborates with Phaidra
ST Telemedia announces working to deploy Phaidra AI control services in data centres in Singapore to optimize cooling and operations.
20 August, 2024
Sequoia Capital interviews Phaidra CEO, Jim Gao, on "Training Data" podcast
Phaidra’s Jim Gao is interviewed by Sequoia Capital Partners, Sonya Huang & Pat Grady, on building the fourth industrial revolution with reinforcement learning artificial intelligence.
02 July, 2024
Phaidra helps data centers handle the AI boom
Read more about how Phaidra's AI technology is helping data centers better manage their energy consumption and improve efficient and safe operation.
01 July, 2024
Index Ventures leads additional funding round for Phaidra
Phaidra's total funding has now reached $60M. Read more about why Index Ventures recently invested $12M in the future of AI control for mission critical industrial facilities.
28 May, 2024
Phaidra selected as finalist for Amazon's Sustainability Accelerator program
15 start-ups, out of hundreds that applied, get a chance to supercharge their growth after being picked to be part of this year’s bigger-than-ever Amazon Sustainability Accelerator.
08 April, 2024
Jim Gao on stage at Data Center Dynamics in New York
Phaidra Co-Founder and CEO, Jim Gao, speaks about the future of autonomous artificial intelligence control to support Data Center optimization.
05 February, 2024
Why we invested in Phaidra
Data Center energy efficiency and AI's impact in helping the sector grow while improving energy efficiency. Read about GS Futures recent investment in Phaidra.
24 October, 2023
AI for a Cooler Earth: Phaidra’s Mission to Combat Data Center Emissions
AI for a cooler earth - find out why Collab Funds is banking on Phaidra's AI controls service to help the industrial sector decrease the energy intensity of its operations.
21 April, 2023
Helena leads Phaidra's Series A raise
Learn more about the Helena team's decision to invest in the revolutionary AI technology for industrial controls that Phaidra is deploying.
18 July, 2022
Phaidra, which sells AI tech to industrial customers, raises $25M from DeepMind co-founder, others
The startup, led by alum from Alphabet's AI research hub DeepMind, launched in Seattle in 2019 and focuses on creating AI-powered tech that is both scalable and repeatable. This allows it to operate in an array of industrial verticals, such as data centers, refineries, pharmaceutical plants and steel mills located across the globe.
14 July, 2022
Google DeepMind Alums Want to Bring AI Energy Controls to Industrial Giants
Seattle startup Phaidra lowers energy bills by automating building controls for power plants. Industrial production is one of the dirtiest corners of the corporate world. A startup from former Google engineers thinks it can clean it up with artificial intelligence.