Emerald AI, Nvidia and Nscale have published results from a pilot at Nscale’s data center in Iceland in which Emerald’s Conductor platform, integrated with Nvidia’s DSX power management technology, reduced the power use of AI server racks by approximately 25 percent and held the reduction for 30 minutes before returning to normal operations. The companies released the results during Nvidia’s GTC event in Berlin this week, and Datacenter Dynamics reported that the test was the first full integration of Conductor with DSX.
The pilot is the seventh Emerald has run, after three in the United States, in Santa Clara, Phoenix and Chicago, and one in the United Kingdom with National Grid. Conductor sits between the grid and the data center and orchestrates workloads in real time, so a facility can flex its draw on request while keeping compute performance within acceptable bounds. Emerald’s first commercial deployment is at Nvidia’s 96MW Aurora data center under construction in Manassas, Virginia.
Founder and chief executive Varun Sivaram framed the result around connection queues: access to power is the main constraint on Europe’s AI build out, and the fastest relief is making AI factories flexible enough to use grid capacity that already exists.