Cologne / Berlin, April 22, 2026 – At the international AI developer conference JCON EUROPE 2026 in Cologne, the world-leading server manufacturer Dell Technologies and Cyrock.AI made a major impact by announcing a breakthrough in artificial intelligence: 80% less computing power, energy consumption, and CO₂ emissions for generative AI. This is made possible by the new AI infrastructure software Cyrock.AI – “Made in Germany” – which users can operate on the Dell AI Factory.
For this pioneering achievement, the eco – Verband der Internetwirtschaft e.V. presented the “AI Sustainability Award” to Dell Technologies and the German deep-tech company Cyrock.AI. Under the patronage of both the eco – Verband and the KI Bundesverband, the award recognizes a technological innovation that addresses the rapidly rising infrastructure costs and the immense energy demands of modern AI systems.
Just a few weeks ago, Google Research attracted global attention with “TurboQuant,” a method for compressing the context exchanged in AI queries by a factor of six. This enables, for the first time, the reduction of expensive AI chip usage for short-term memory through software. The Cyrock.AI solution presented together with Dell now provides the counterpart: infrastructure for highly efficient long-term AI memory with even greater savings potential and novel capabilities. According to Johann Strauss, CTO AI Solutions at Dell, this will particularly benefit enterprises seeking to build powerful, independent enterprise AI systems.
The secret of Cyrock.AI lies in its architecture. Until now, so-called vector databases have been used for long-term storage of AI data, based on traditional database server architectures: a single large database running continuously on a massive machine under high load. The larger the data volume, the more expensive RAM is required. More RAM automatically entails more CPU cores. Once the server is running, maximum computing power is constantly allocated—even when not needed. As a result, up to 80% of computing capacity, and thus costly energy, is wasted. Due to the tight coupling between total data volume and expensive RAM, rapidly escalating memory costs have become a financial barrier for enterprise AI.
Cyrock.AI addresses this issue by applying a well-established architectural principle introduced years ago by AWS with Lambda. Instead of a large monolithic server, the platform operates with extremely small compute units that are only active when actually needed. Otherwise, they shut down and consume no computing power. Benchmarks indicate savings of up to 80%. Cyrock.AI has transferred this principle to the long-term storage of massive AI datasets and claims it can provide petabyte-scale AI data in near real time.
Dell Technologies plays a key role by providing the AI Factory platform, making this software innovation accessible to all Dell users. In doing so, Dell sets new standards in sustainable green AI within the AI server market and makes a significant contribution to enabling future climate-friendly AI giga-factories in Germany and across Europe.
For the eco – Verband der Internetwirtschaft e.V. and the KI Bundesverband, this breakthrough is a clear signal of Germany’s competitiveness as a technology location. The fact that the development team behind Cyrock.AI is based in northeastern Bavaria and that the solution is built on open-source principles highlights the importance of sovereign AI technology “Made in Germany”. With their joint patronage of the award, the associations emphasize their goal of positioning Germany as a leader in sustainable digitalization. The combination of Dell’s global hardware excellence and German AI software expertise demonstrates a new path for scaling artificial intelligence worldwide without exceeding ecological limits.
