Ferveret has secured funding to commercialize a cooling technology that could slash data center energy consumption as AI demand surges. The MIT spinout, founded by former nuclear engineering postdoc Reza Azizian and Professor Matteo Bucci, adapts heat transfer principles from nuclear reactors to cool computer chips.

Data centers are projected to consume 9 to 17 percent of total US electricity by 2030, with roughly a third devoted to cooling AI chips. Ferveret's Adaptive Phase Cooling (APC) system submerges servers in specialized liquid instead of using traditional air cooling.

The key innovation lies in bubble formation. Ferveret's system generates smaller bubbles at server surfaces that detach more frequently, accelerating heat transfer compared to existing liquid cooling solutions.

A recent study with UCLA's computer science department found the APC solution delivered a 15 percent improvement in computational power efficiency versus state-of-the-art liquid cooling. Combined with Ferveret's power optimization controls, data centers can extract 35 percent more tokens from AI models using the same power input.

"Our goal is to make data centers as sustainable as possible and help them use every single watt of power to generate tokens," Azizian said. "Our system enables the operation of more powerful chips, it helps data centers waste a lot less energy, and it accomplishes all that with zero water consumption."

The company is already testing its technology with CleanSpark, a data center developer and operator, plus AI accelerator company FuriosaAI and Switch, one of America's largest data center operators.

Azizian and Bucci began collaborating at MIT in 2013 with funding from the MIT Energy Initiative, initially focusing on nuclear reactor heat transfer. Azizian later moved to industry, working on Microsoft's HoloLens headset before joining Nvidia to develop chip cooling solutions.

The nuclear-to-AI transition reflects growing urgency around data center sustainability as artificial intelligence drives unprecedented infrastructure expansion. Ferveret's water-free approach addresses both energy efficiency and resource conservation concerns plaguing the industry.