Ferveret Revolutionizes Data Centre Cooling: A Promising Path to Sustainability
How Ferveret ‘s Liquid Cooling Technology is Set to Transform the Data Centre Industry
In the midst of a data explosion, the data centre industry faces a double challenge: a surge in demand for storage and processing capabilities and an urgent need for sustainable practices. A startup called Ferveret has emerged as a beacon of hope with its innovative liquid cooling technology, inspired by nuclear power plant cooling, promising to revolutionize data centre cooling and significantly reduce the industry’s carbon footprint.
Harnessing the Power of Subcooled Nucleate Boiling
Ferveret’s liquid cooling technology stands out from traditional cooling methods through its utilization of subcooled nucleate boiling. This process enables the efficient removal of high heat fluxes from processors and other heat-generating components. The potential of Ferveret’s technology lies in its ability to directly extract heat from the chip’s surface, maintaining the fluid at a subcooled state. This direct heat removal enhances chip performance and enables servers to handle more computations with greater efficiency.
Ferveret’s Unique Position in the Industry
Ferveret’s founders, Reza Azizian and Matteo Bucci, bring together a wealth of expertise in electronic cooling, nuclear science and engineering, respectively. Their complementary backgrounds have been pivotal in developing this ground breaking solution. Furthermore, the team’s diverse composition, with employees hailing from six different countries and varying fields, contributes to their innovative approach.
The company’s impressive backing by renowned investors like Y Combinator and the MIT Media Lab E14 Fund further validates the potential of their technology. Both investors recognized the significance of Ferveret’s mission, the technical expertise of its founders, and the pressing need for more sustainable data centre cooling solutions.
Co-founder and CEO: Reza Azizian, is an MIT alumnus and has more than 10 years of experience in the electronic cooling industry. This includes designing a thermal solution for Microsoft HoloLens, as well as working as a senior packaging thermal engineer at NVIDIA and senior design thermal engineer at Cruise.
Co-Founder and CTO: Matteo Bucci Matteo, is a faculty member in Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT. Prior to Ferveret, he spent nearly a decade as a Research Scientist at CEA Paris. Fields of expertise include heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and nuclear reactor design. Outside of his core work, Matteo is also a nuclear energy consultant and editor of Applied Thermal Engineering
A Path Towards a Greener Future
The data centre industry has long struggled with its environmental impact. Data centres are major contributors to carbon emissions, with inefficient cooling methods being responsible for a significant portion of these emissions. Ferveret’s liquid cooling technology offers a path towards sustainability, aiming to reduce data centre carbon footprints by 40% by 2040.
Ferveret’s technology eliminates wasted energy, saving data centres up to 96% in cooling costs and 68% on capital costs. This not only benefits companies economically but also helps create a greener future for our planet.
Looking Ahead: Scaling Up for Greater Impact
As Ferveret’s liquid cooling technology continues to gain traction in the data centre and cryptocurrency industries, the company has ambitious plans for the future. With a strong focus on research and development, they aim to scale up operations and recruit top engineers to meet the growing demands of their customers.
