Smart Cooling Breakthrough Slashes AI Data Center Energy Waste
Seattle, Monday, 16 March 2026.
Announced today, March 16, 2026, a new AI-managed cooling system slashes data center heat spikes by 80 percent, reacting in under ten seconds to maximize energy efficiency.
Eliminating the Cooling Lag
On March 16, 2026, Phaidra, alongside cloud provider CoreWeave and infrastructure company Applied Digital, unveiled a new methodology for managing liquid cooling in NVIDIA Max-Q AI factories [1]. Historically, data centers have relied on proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers to manage cooling systems, a legacy approach that suffers from a three-to-five-minute response delay [1]. This lag frequently leads to dangerous thermal spikes and massive energy waste as cooling systems struggle to catch up with the sudden computational bursts typical of artificial intelligence workloads [1].