Coeur d’Alene-based information-technology company Krambu Inc. has teamed with an Oregon company to develop green cooling technology for high-performance computer data centers.

In combining Krambu’s advanced power optimization expertise with Baker City, Oregon-based Elkhorn Inc.’s cooling technology, the partnership expects to develop technology to generate gains in efficiency and sustainability for the data center industry, Krambu CEO Travis Jank says in a press release.

“This collaboration marks a significant step forward in addressing the growing challenges of energy consumption and emissions in high-performance computing environments,” Jank says.

Elkhorn’s patent-pending, water-based cooling technology is designed to replace environmentally harmful refrigerants while reducing energy consumption and meeting the fast-growing cooling demands of AI and data centers, he says, adding that the cooling technology not only is safer and greener, but also more cost effective than conventional freon-based cooling systems.

Jank co-founded Krambu, an artificial intelligence and information technology products and service provider, in 2017 to provide high-performance computing and digital infrastructure with computers primarily built as servers, designed for use in artificial intelligence and blockchain computing.

As earlier reported in the Journal, demand for the company’s servers reached its production capacity in 2018, triggering Krambu to develop a data center in Newport, Washington, the second phase of which was completed in 2023.

In addition to providing data center products and services, high-performance hardware, and system optimization, Krambu is a pioneer in the emerging artificial intelligence-as-a-service platform, according to its website.

Earlier this month, the company announced in a press release it had set a performance record using AMD Radeon graphics processing units to calculate 32 billion digits of the mathematical constant known as “pi” in just under 44 seconds, highlighting the efficiency and processing power of its software and hardware.