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Fresh off $50M round, this Seattle startup cuts data center cooling energy and eyes a bigger prize

By District Energy posted 10-08-2025 18:25

  

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Summary

When Phaidra CEO Jim Gao describes the AI agents that his Seattle company built to improve data center efficiencies, one can imagine an army of behind-the-scenes digital minions working away.

Their job is to fine-tune data center operations with a focus on cooling the electronics — which typically accounts for 30% of a facility’s energy use, ranking second to the power required for the data processing operations. They’re tracking temperatures, voltages, the spinning of pumps and other infrastructure to understand how well the center is operating.

The company’s AI agents operate autonomously and evolve through reinforcement learning — observing outcomes, adapting and improving. The startup cuts energy use from cooling by 25% through its technology. The savings matter.

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