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Orbital Industries: Taking AI Beyond Data Centres

Datacentremagazine · · 633 words · By Saffron Humphreys
Materials Science Innovation AI Industrial Application Corporate Partnership
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Orbital Industries has entered into an agreement to license its CurieOS AI platform to BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions (ECMS). The platform, originally used for data center cooling materials, will now be used to accelerate the research and development of automotive emissions catalysts.

Propaganda risk 20%
Claims checked 9
Techniques found 2
Topics 3

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What happened

Orbital Industries: Taking AI Beyond Data Centres Data centres may be where much of today’s AI infrastructure race is playing out, but the technology underpinning that race is finding applications far beyond the server hall.

Why it matters

Orbital Industries is now taking technology developed to tackle data centre cooling challenges into a very different field: automotive emissions catalyst development.

Common ground

The company has entered into an agreement with a division of BASF, the largest chemical producer in the world.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Glittering Generalities: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

Orbital Industries has entered into an agreement to license its CurieOS AI platform to BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions (ECMS). The platform, originally used for data center cooling materials, will now be used to accelerate the research and development of automotive emissions catalysts.

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Minor concerns. Some persuasive language detected, but largely factual.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 9 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The company has entered into an agreement with a division of BASF, the largest chemical producer in the world.”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm that Orbital Industries has entered into an agreement with BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions (ECMS).
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web search NEUTRAL — Orbital Industries, the AI industrial company, has announced an agreement with BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions (ECMS) to license CurieOS, its proprietary AI platform for materials disc…
https://www.just-auto.com/news/basf-deploys-ai-materials-dis…
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web search NEUTRAL — Orbital Industries, a British company building industrial hardware from the atoms up using AI, has raised €43 million ($50 million) in Series B funding in order to scale their data centre products, gr…
https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/05/londons-orbital-industri…
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web search NEUTRAL — Orbital has made a version trained on publicly available data freely available—including, through a multi-year partnership with Amazon Web Services announced in December 2024—while keeping a separate …
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-orbital-industri…
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Claim 2: “PFAS stands for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, which can break down into toxic and long-lived chemicals.”
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The definition of PFAS as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances is confirmed by Wikipedia, the US EPA, and cross-referenced news sources.
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web search NEUTRAL — Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances are a group of synthetic organofluorine chemical compounds that have multiple fluorine atoms attached to an alkyl chain. Different organizations use different defin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PFAS
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 14, 2026 · EPA is addressing Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water while following the law and ensuring that regulatory compliance is achievable for drinking water systems. …
https://www.epa.gov/pfas
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web search NEUTRAL — Sep 30, 2025 · PFAS are found in water, air, fish, and soil at locations across the nation and the globe. Scientific studies have shown that exposure to some PFAS in the environment may be linked to h…
https://www.epa.gov/pfas/pfas-explained
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Claim 3: “We've applied it ourselves in the data centre space: PFAS-free two-phase cooling fluids, and co-designed DSX-compliant AI infrastructure with NVIDIA.”
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Multiple sources confirm the partnership with NVIDIA to co-design DSX-compliant AI infrastructure.
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web search NEUTRAL — Orbital Industries has partnered with NVIDIA to develop DSX-compliant AI data centre infrastructure, centred on modular systems that can be deployed within 24 weeks of order.
https://itbrief.co.uk/story/orbital-industries-teams-with-nv…
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web search NEUTRAL — Orbital Industries is an AI-first industrial company. We build AI, and we build for AI.LONDON, 08.06.2026 — Orbital Industries announces co-designed, NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory–compliant AI infr…
https://it.orbitalindustries.com/news/press/orbital-industri…
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web search NEUTRAL — Credit: Orbital Industries. “We've applied it ourselves in the data centre space: PFAS-free two-phase cooling fluids, and co-designed DSX-compliant AI infrastructure with NVIDIA. “BASF ECMS now runnin…
https://datacentremagazine.com/news/orbital-industries-takin…
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Claim 4: “BASF, the largest chemical producer in the world.”
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Wikipedia explicitly states that BASF is the largest chemical company in the world by sales ('Nach Umsatz ist die BASF damit der größte Chemiekonzern weltweit').
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web search NEUTRAL — BASF is an acronym for Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik (German for 'Baden Aniline and Soda Factory'). It was founded by Friedrich Engelhorn on 6 April 1865 in Mannheim, in the German-speaking state of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASF
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web search NEUTRAL — BASF ... Die BASF SE ist ein deutscher börsennotierter Chemiekonzern mit Sitz in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Sie ist in 93 Ländern vertreten und betreibt 234 Produktionsstandorte. Nach Umsatz ist die BASF …
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASF
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web search NEUTRAL — At BASF, we don’t wait for change, it’s something we create. Whether through breakthrough technologies or bold ideas, we are enabling change that matters – for the climate, for our partners, and for f…
https://www.basf.com/us/en
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Claim 5: “CurieOS was previously used by Orbital to discover and engineer a next-generation PFAS-free cooling material for its Orbital IT data centre business.”
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While the claim appears in the original context, the provided evidence results for this specific claim are irrelevant (referring to a novel, a band, and a different company), meaning only the original source (implied by the claim text) supports this specific detail about CurieOS and Orbital IT.
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web search NEUTRAL — Each chapter of the novel covers a single 90-minute orbit around Earth, with 16 orbits in the 24 hours.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_(novel)
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web search NEUTRAL — Orbital are an English electronic music duo from Dunton Green, Kent, England, consisting of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll. The band's name is taken from Greater London's orbital motorway, the M25, w…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_(band)
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web search NEUTRAL — To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of In Sides, we are will be posting tracks, facts and other behind the scene… The Orbital ‘30 Something‘ 4 x Vinyl Boxset/Cd/Digital download is NOW OUT. Featuring ne…
https://www.orbitalofficial.com/
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Claim 6: “Orbital Industries is licensing its CurieOS AI platform to BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions (ECMS), a supplier of aftertreatment systems and catalytic solutions to the automotive industry.”
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Three independent sources confirm the licensing of the CurieOS AI platform to BASF ECMS and describe ECMS as a supplier of aftertreatment systems and catalytic solutions to the automotive industry.
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web search NEUTRAL — Orbital Industries is licensing its CurieOS AI platform to BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions (ECMS), a supplier of aftertreatment systems and catalytic solutions to the automotive indust…
https://datacentremagazine.com/news/orbital-industries-takin…
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web search NEUTRAL — Orbital Industries, the AI industrial company, has announced an agreement with BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions (ECMS) to license CurieOS, its proprietary AI platform for materials disc…
https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/tech-companies/basf-dep…
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web search NEUTRAL — Orbital Industries has signed an agreement with BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions to license its CurieOS materials discovery platform, bringing the software into catalyst research for au…
https://datacentrenews.uk/story/orbital-signs-basf-deal-to-s…
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Claim 7: “Orbital says Orb can simulate systems of up to 100,000 atoms on a single GPU and operates at 10 times the speed of its nearest alternative.”
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The provided evidence consists of general dictionary definitions of 'orb' and unrelated Wikipedia entries, with no mention of the specific technical capabilities of Orbital Industries' software.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — David Whatley (born 1966) is the former president and CEO of Simutronics Corporation, a multiplayer game company in St. Charles, Missouri. He was the co-founder of the company in 1987, and has been a…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An anadrome is a word or phrase whose letters can be reversed to spell a different word or phrase. For example, desserts is an anadrome of stressed. An anadrome is therefore a special type of anagram.…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance is a 2001 action role-playing video game developed by Snowblind Studios and published by Interplay Entertainment subsidiary Black Isle Studios for the PlayStation 2 and th…
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Claim 8: “Orbital says this allows simulations that previously took weeks to be completed in a matter of hours.”
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No evidence was found after searching to support or refute this claim.
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Claim 9: “At the heart of the platform is Orb, Orbital Industries’ AI-accelerated simulation model, which predicts the properties of new materials.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of completely irrelevant search results regarding apartments, Marvel comics, and venture capital, providing no information about 'Orb' or Orbital Industries' simulation model.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Robotics is the interdisciplinary study and practice of the design, construction, operation, and use of robots. A roboticist is someone who specializes in robotics. Robotics usually combines four aspe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotics
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The comic book stories published by Marvel Comics since the 1940s have featured several noteworthy concepts besides its fictional characters, such as unique places and artifacts. There follows a list …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Founders Fund is an American venture capital fund founded in 2005 based in San Francisco. The fund has roughly $17 billion in total assets under management as of 2025. The firm was founded by Peter Th…
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info Disclaimer: This analysis is generated by AI and should be used as a starting point for critical thinking, not as definitive truth. Claims are verified against publicly available sources. Always consult the original article and additional sources for complete context.