Terakraft, an AI data centre operator, and Neurophos, an AI chip company, have entered into a collaboration agreement to provide sustainable, high performance, and energy-efficient AI infrastructure.
As AI transforms industries and daily life, the demand for high performance computing infrastructure has never been greater. One of the biggest challenges facing the computing infrastructure industry, however is the immense energy consumption required to power and cool these systems.
Terakraft and Neurophos are joining forces to demonstrate how green data centres and breakthrough hardware can work together to chart a more sustainable path forward.
Based in Norway, Terakraft provides sustainable AI infrastructure. Powered entirely by renewable hydropower and cooled with natural lake water, Terakraft achieves a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) below 1.1 – among one of the best metrics in the industry. By repurposing an existing hydropower plant built with reinforced concrete, Terakraft avoids additional embodied carbon and sets a new benchmark for low-emission operations.
Neurophos is rewriting the rules of AI hardware with proprietary optical processing units which are 100x more energy efficient than leading GPUs for the same workload. By harnessing the efficiency of photonics and scaling properties from metamaterials, Neurophos has successfully fabricated, demonstrated, and characterised its miniaturisation of optical modulators by a factor of 10,000x.
In doing so, it enables future optical processing units to deliver the compute power of 100 GPUs while consuming the equivalent of 1% of the energy, validated by end-to-end simulation results. Its compute-in-memory architecture, inspired by the human brain’s efficiency, allows for unprecedented processing speeds and density, making ultra-efficient, large-scale AI inference both practical and scalable.
Both companies plan to host a pilot as part of a commercial early access programme in 2027 for Neurophos’ accelerated AI inference platform. The project will provide a proving ground for sustainable, ultra-efficient compute.
“By hosting Neurophos’ ultra-efficient optical chips in our green data centre for select enterprise clients, we not only reduce our carbon footprint but also raise the bar for energy-efficient AI infrastructure. Our mission has always been to power the future responsibly, and this collaboration brings that vision to life,” said Giorgio Sbriglia, Chairman of the Board of Terakraft.
“Terakraft’s commitment to renewable energy and innovative technologies aligns perfectly with our mission to democratize high-performance AI. By deploying our 100x more efficient inference chips in Terakraft’s green data centre, we’re proving that AI’s exponential growth can be achieved sustainably, together,” said Patrick Bowen, CEO and Founder of Neurophos.
