A local weather tech startup tackling one of many greatest issues about AI information centres, water use, has raised US$1.8 million (A$2.5M) in Seed funding.
The spherical for Enaxiom was led by Singapore-based all-female funding collective Epic Angels, with assist from BlackNova and Antler. The startup, based in Sydney in 2023 by Bijan Rahimi and Tia Collings, has now raised US$2.7m (A$3.7M) in complete.
The funds are for business deployment of its information centre cooling and water effectivity system, Hydrocool, boosting headcount, and accelerating US enlargement.
Enaxiom is targeted on a selected layer of the info centre cooling stack: warmth rejection.
The corporate’s patented system, primarily based on a decade of analysis, is designed to work alongside fashionable liquid cooling applied sciences akin to direct-to-chip and immersion cooling. It makes use of non-potable (versus ingesting) water, together with wastewater streams, and is designed to recuperate high-quality water as a by-product.
That ends in a cooling system that contributes to water reuse.
After a 40kW pilot system delivered proof it really works, Enaxiom is now seeking to develop modular programs at business scale.
Collings, Enaxiom’s CEO, stated water shortage is changing into a defining problem for the trade.
“As AI infrastructure scales, the actual constraint is shifting from compute to vitality and water,” she stated.
“We’re constructing cooling infrastructure that tackles this on the warmth rejection layer — probably the most missed however essential elements of a knowledge centre cooling system.”
Epic Angels founding accomplice Maaike Doyer stated their funding is a part of a broader dedication to supporting feminine founders in deep tech.
“Information facilities are one of many defining infrastructure challenges of our time, and water is quickly changing into as essential a constraint as vitality,” she stated.
“What makes Enaxiom compelling is that they’ve flipped the issue: as an alternative of treating water consumption as an unavoidable price of cooling, they’ve constructed a system that recovers it. And Tia is strictly the type of founder we again: a feminine chief constructing deep know-how in an area that has traditionally had only a few of them”
