Infinitum’s motors are helping the world’s highest-emitting, power-intensive industries, including the booming data center industry, consume energy more responsibly—at a time when the planet is experiencing climate change, electric grids are stretched and power outages occur more frequently.
Motors are the workhorses of modern society. There are billions of them and collectively they consume more than half the planet’s electricity. As AI-workloads multiply, the number of motors, and the energy they consume, is set to increase. Traditional motors were not designed to minimize the amount of energy or critical resources they use––they are typically heavy, waste energy and at end of life, they are thrown into landfills.
Infinitum has created a new paradigm for an electric motor that can power the world with less energy and fewer carbon emissions, while promoting repairability and circularity. When compared to conventional motors, the Infinitum motor is upwards of 20% more efficient, 50% lighter, uses 66% less copper and no iron, and produces significantly lower sound power noise. The motor’s reusable components stay in service and out of landfills to serve the next generation.
Infinitum motors sustainably power HVAC systems that cool office buildings in extreme heat; filter contaminated air from hospital buildings; keep indoor air healthy in schools; drive the conveyors that move the products we need every day; and are now helping data centers reduce emissions and optimize their energy consumption as power demand skyrockets.
Sustainability is at the heart of the Infinitum and the reason the company is changing the motor paradigm. Infinitum’s next-generation motors are designed holistically with the entire product lifecycle in mind. Infinitum motors go beyond efficiency to address sustainability across manufacturing, operations, maintenance and end of life. With 100 pending or issued patents, Infinitum is leading the 100 year-old motor industry into the next century for the greatest positive impact on the planet today and for the next generation.
Building a motor and company around sustainability from the start has led to a leap forward in efficiency, reliability, energy consumption and emissions reduction. Infinitum’s motor design is centered on three key areas: energy efficiency, serviceability and sustainability.
Design for Energy Efficiency and Optimization: The Aircore EC features the industry’s only silicon carbide based integrated variable frequency drive, providing precise power control to optimize the energy consumption and deliver the exact amount of power needed at any given time. Its rightsizing capability gives customers the opportunity to reduce power requirements and wiring costs, while delivering class-leading efficiency.
Design for Serviceability: The motor’s modular design makes service and repair easy and minimizes downtime to 15 mins vs weeks for a traditional motor.
Design for Sustainability: Infinitum is careful about the resources used to manufacture the motor and uses no iron in the stator and 66% less copper. The Lego-like design of the motor makes manufacturing more sustainable, and circularity allows for reusability and remanufacturing, keeping motors in service and out of landfills.
