Green AI Partnerships

Terakraft and Neurophos have entered a collaboration to pilot Neurophos’ optical processing units within Terakraft’s green AI data centre environment, providing a real world testbed for next generation, energy efficient AI inference hardware. The agreement covers integration and evaluation activities at Terakraft’s facility in Sauda, Norway, and includes a commercial early access programme with pilot deployments planned for 2027. The partners describe the work as a demonstration of how photonic accelerators can be hosted in data centres powered by renewable energy to assess performance, energy use, and operational integration.

The collaboration is positioned to compare optical processing approaches with existing GPU driven systems and to explore potential gains in compute density and energy efficiency for AI workloads. Project materials and industry reporting highlight objectives such as validating system level efficiency, establishing deployment pathways for optical hardware in production data centres, and supporting a transition to lower carbon AI infrastructure. The pilot is presented as a step toward scalable, sustainable AI compute by combining Terakraft’s green data centre operations with Neurophos’ photonic processor technology.

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