A South Florida energy company teams up with Imperial College London on AI
· Partnership announced October 27, 2026
AMPERA, a Palm Beach Gardens company that develops power systems for data centers, defense, industry and ships, has announced a multiyear research partnership of about $9 million (£7 million) with Imperial College London, one of the world’s top science universities.
Energy × AI
Testing energy designs on a computer first
Together they will develop NeuralTwin, a “digital twin” platform. A digital twin is a detailed computer model of a real system. It combines the laws of physics with artificial intelligence, so engineers can try out a design, change it and see how it behaves, all on the computer, before anything is built.
Imperial College London describes the work as research into a digital-twin platform for advanced nuclear energy systems, which is part of AMPERA’s strategy. This is a research partnership: it does not mean a new power plant or reactor is being built in South Florida.
Why it’s good, in plain words: testing on a computer can make new energy technology faster, cheaper and safer to develop. Data centers and new industries need a lot of reliable power, so this kind of research matters for the region’s growth. And it shows that South Florida’s tech scene now includes serious energy science, not only apps and finance.
- Company
- AMPERA, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
- Partner
- Imperial College London
- Amount
- About $9 million (£7 million), multiyear
- Platform
- NeuralTwin, a physics-based AI digital twin
- Announced
- October 27, 2026
What it means for Miami · Our view
South Florida keeps attracting serious technology beyond software. Energy for data centers is one of the big questions of the AI era, and a local company is working on it with a world-class university.
Still to be confirmed
Results of the research, commercial products, and any deployment dates. The $9 million is a research partnership, not venture funding or a construction budget.
Sources
- AMPERA and Imperial College London partner to develop physics-grounded AI platform for advanced energy systems (opens in a new tab) (company announcement, PR Newswire, October 27, 2026)
- Imperial and AMPERA join forces to develop digital twin platform for advanced nuclear energy systems (opens in a new tab) (Imperial College London, October 27, 2026)
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