Thermint is the decision layer that turns FRDGE hardware into a self-optimizing dispatchable asset. It ingests live grid pricing, ambient temperature forecasts, GPU workload schedules, and facility sensor telemetry, then runs continuous optimization to determine exactly when to charge, when to discharge, when to idle the chiller, and when to reject heat directly.
Without Thermint, a thermal battery is passive hardware. With it, the facility cooling loop becomes a managed resource: predictable to operators, optimized against grid economics, and continuously responsive to the variable nature of AI workloads.
The optimization problem
AI training and inference workloads are episodic, variable, and thermally intense. Ambient temperatures shift by 15–20°C across a 24-hour cycle in many climates. A static cooling schedule captures none of this value. Thermint re-optimizes every 15 minutes across all variables simultaneously, solving a mixed-integer optimization across all variables to find the optimal charge and discharge schedule. Every BTU becomes a deliberate economic decision rather than a thermostatic reflex.