Jim Gao

Co-founder and CEO of Phaidra, an AI company building autonomous control systems for mission-critical facilities and AI factories. Gao previously led DeepMind Energy and spent a decade as a technical lead for Google data centers, with work focused on data-center cooling, energy efficiency, and AI-driven infrastructure optimization.

AI Factory Digital Twins Link Facility Design to Tokens per Watt

Leaders from Jacobs, PTC and Phaidra argue that AI factories are becoming too complex and volatile to design, build and operate through siloed handoffs. In their account, NVIDIA’s DSX reference design and Omniverse DSX Blueprint provide a shared digital twin that carries design intent from planning into simulation and operations, allowing teams to test facility layouts before construction and train AI agents to manage cooling, power use and tokens per watt once the data center is running.

NVIDIAMay 27, 20265 min read