{"slug": "nvidia-google-and-emerald-ai-launch-flexible-data-center-consortium", "title": "Nvidia, Google and Emerald AI launch flexible data center consortium", "summary": "Nvidia Corp., Google LLC and startup Emerald AI Inc. launched the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA) on Wednesday to promote flexible data centers that cut power draw when the electrical grid is under strain. The consortium, backed by 18 other companies including Anthropic PBC and chipmaker Analog Devices Inc., will first develop best practices for flexible data centers, standardize power-optimization metrics and encourage members to share technical data. Google disclosed in March that its demand response capacity exceeds 1 gigawatt, while Emerald AI raised $150 million last month and is building a 100-megawatt power-flexible AI factory in Manassas, Virginia with Nvidia.", "body_md": "### Nvidia, Google and Emerald AI launch flexible data center consortium\n\nNvidia Corp., Google LLC and software startup Emerald AI Inc. have formed an industry consortium to promote the construction of flexible data centers.\n\nThe AI Energy Management Alliance, or AEMA, officially [launched](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-energy-management-alliance/) on Wednesday.\n\nA flexible data center is a facility that cuts its power draw when the electrical grid is under strain. That usage reduction can take multiple forms. If household energy demand is expected to peak in the afternoon on a certain day, data center operators can schedule their AI training runs to avoid that time frame. Alternatively, they can draw power from on-site batteries instead of the grid.\n\nOn-site batteries also have other benefits. If a utility is struggling to meet consumer demand on its own, data center operators can inject some of their stored electricity into the grid.\n\nThe AEMA’s three founding members are closely involved in the flexible data center ecosystem.\n\nGoogle has developed what it calls demand response technologies to align its cloud facilities’ energy usage with grid requirements. In March, the company [disclosed](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/global-network/demand-response-data-center-milestone/) that its demand response capacity exceeds 1 gigawatt.\n\nNvidia offers a software tool called DSX Flex to data center operators that use its Rubin graphics cards. The application can optimize an AI facility’s grid usage, on-premise energy generation equipment and batteries. It makes optimization decisions based partly on signals from power utilities’ infrastructure.\n\nEmerald AI, the third founding member of AEMA, is a startup that [raised](https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/25/data-center-power-startup-emerald-ai-raises-150m-at-1-05b-valuation/) $150 million in funding last month. It counts Nvidia among its investors. The two companies are collaborating on a 100-megawatt data center in Manassas, Virginia that they describe as the “world’s first power-flexible AI factory.”\n\nEmerald AI offers a software platform called Emerald Conductor that enables server clusters to lower their energy consumption when the grid is under stress. According to the company, the software also limits the impact of power draw reductions on AI workloads. Emerald Conductor will be used in the Manassas data center that Emerald AI is building with Nvidia.\n\nAEMA is also backed by 18 other companies. The group includes Anthropic PBC, chipmaker Analog Devices Inc. and multiple utilities.\n\nThe consortium’s first priority will be to develop best practices for flexible data centers. According to AEMA, its best practices will cover details such as how facilities should respond to power outages. The goal is to encourage data center builders to implement those standards in new facilities before they’re powered on.\n\nAEMA’s work will also cover other areas. It will seek to standardize the metrics that data center operators use to evaluate their power optimization efforts. 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