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How This YC-Backed CEO Is Reinventing Data Centers With AI—Drawing on Her Microsoft Experience

How This YC-Backed CEO Is Reinventing Data Centers With AI—Drawing on Her Microsoft Experience

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What happens when data centers built for the cloud era try to handle AI workloads? They break down—frequently and expensively. Margarita is CEO & Co-Founder at Aravolta. She is a trailblazing entrepreneur building a cutting-edge data center management software company. With a solid background in engineering and extensive experience at Microsoft working on Stargate with OpenAI.


Data center operations have remained largely unchanged for 15-20 years, creating a massive efficiency gap just as computational demands are skyrocketing. After building internal tools at Microsoft for supercomputer deployments like OpenAI, Margarita recognized the opportunity to transform the entire industry. She discovered that 98% of data center operators were deeply unhappy with their existing software systems but had few alternatives available.

The technical challenge is immense—connecting to hundreds of different device types across dozens of vendors, each with their own proprietary communication protocols. Aerovolta's breakthrough came through developing a middleware layer that can rapidly integrate with virtually any equipment, from transformers to cooling systems to the GPUs themselves. This foundation of comprehensive data collection enables their AI to analyze thousands of inputs simultaneously, identifying inefficiencies humans simply cannot see.

The results speak for themselves: immediate 2-5% power savings upon deployment, 15% increases in uptime, and significantly extended hardware lifespans. This last point is particularly critical as some data centers are burning through million-dollar GPU clusters in just one year instead of their expected 7-8 year lifespan due to workload spikes and suboptimal operations.

Throughout our conversation, Margarita shares insights from her founder journey—from immigrant parents who taught extreme gratitude and self-reliance, to navigating the Y Combinator experience, to building a company that's now working with the most sophisticated compute providers in the world. Her approach to fundraising, hiring, and product development offers valuable lessons for anyone building in the AI infrastructure space.

Ready to see how intelligent infrastructure management could transform your data center operations? Listen now to discover how small, focused teams are solving massive challenges that once seemed insurmountable.

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