Akash Systems brings diamond cooling to AI infrastructure
Akash Systems Inc. believes it has a solution for the heat problem of graphics processing units: lab-grown diamonds.
The company originally got its start in space, managing solar radiation on satellites, and now wants to bring its technology to Earth. Akash Systems’ diamonds remove heat incredibly fast, according to Pamit Surana (pictured), co-founder and CCO of Akash Systems, who demonstrated the technology during the interview.
“The physics of heat is what we deal with every day, and it’s what the ecosystem’s dealing with every day,” Surana said, as he showed off the diamond’s ability to quickly transfer heat into an ice cube. “That piece of diamond is the most thermally conductive material on Earth. That’ll move heat faster from one end to the other than any other material. In fact, it’s five times faster than the second most thermally-conductive element, which is copper.”
Surana spoke with theCUBE’s Gemma Allen for theCUBE + NYSE Wired: AI Factories – Data Centers of the Future interview series, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how lab-grown diamonds improve the efficiency of AI data centers and Akash Systems’ growing customer base.
