Challenge
Winning the AI race will require accelerating the process of developing and deploying new data center technologies and energy management strategies to provide the extreme compute power for AI advancements, while ensuring secure, reliable, and affordable energy for consumers.
AI Solution
By leveraging AI/machine learning (ML), digital twins, and cyber-physical testbeds, we can rapidly de-risk advanced data center technologies and their grid integration, accelerating the time to deployment and supporting stakeholder needs including data center operators, equipment providers, communities, and utilities. AI/ML can accelerate physics-based models to enable real-time digital twins, explore millions of deployment scenarios, and optimize under a unique constraint surface.
Justification
This project leverages DOE's capacity to convene data center and utility stakeholders, the national laboratories’ research expertise in both load flexibility and computing, and their unique cyber-physical testbed facilities. Specifically, the DOE already supports the Center of Expertise for Data Center Energy at LBNL, which can provide resources, including a variety of data sets on data center energy use, to aid this effort.
National Impact
By ensuring a robust capacity to develop cutting edge data center technologies and load management strategies, we will solidify U.S. intellectual and economic leadership in AI, driving prosperity and security while maintaining secure, reliable, and affordable energy for consumers.
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