Akash Systems has announced the launch and availability of Diamond Cooled AI servers powered by AMD Instinct MI350X GPUs and manufactured by MiTAC Computing. Akash says this is the first commercial deployment of its Diamond Cooling technology with AMD Instinct GPUs in AI data centers, targeting higher sustained GPU performance and lower cooling power in standard and high-ambient facilities.
Akash positions Diamond Cooling as an add-on to existing air- and liquid-cooling approaches, using diamond for heat management. The company says diamond has the highest thermal conductivity of any known material and removes heat five times faster than copper. Akash reports up to a 10 C (18 F) temperature reduction on both the GPU and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), which it says can improve Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), data center density, and Return on Investment (ROI) by enabling more compute within the same power and thermal envelope.
Akash claims the design delivers throttle-free performance with up to 22 percent higher FLOPs per Watt at standard ambient data center temperatures (about 75 F). It also reports that a data center could operate with up to 100 percent less power dedicated to cooling while maintaining high performance up to about 120 F ambient temperature, attributing this to the GPU temperature reduction. Akash adds that its testing found the approach could unlock up to 15 percent token throughput improvement in high-ambient data center temperatures, and it claims each Diamond Cooled server could generate up to $1 million in incremental value over four years versus servers without Diamond Cooling solutions.
The companies say the servers are manufactured and deployed in partnership with MiTAC and are “fully warrantied under existing AMD and manufacturer warranties.” Akash also reports it has received $300 million for an initial launch order. For platform components, MiTAC says the servers include two 5th Gen AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs, AMD Pensando Pollara 400 AI NICs, and the AMD ROCm software stack.
Akash also says Diamond Cooling is already “established in outer space,” where it is “currently operating in active satellite systems.” Akash states it plans to release Diamond Cooling solutions for additional AMD Instinct GPU systems in 2026, including AMD Instinct MI355X and future AMD Instinct GPUs.
Source: Akash Systems
