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Cooling
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ZutaCore Takes Waterless Liquid Cooling Into Financial Services
The liquid-cooling market has spent much of the past two years following the AI data center ZutaCore is now making a case that the thermal problem created by high-density compute is becoming much broader; On 23 September, Options Technology announced an agreement with ZutaCore to make the company’s HyperCool waterless, two-phase direct-to-chip liquid cooling technology…
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Liquid Cooling Moves From Component to Data Center Architecture
LiquidStack is shifting the liquid-cooling conversation from individual components to whole-system design as AI rack densities rise and operators prepare for successive generations of high-density compute
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Why Vertiv is Consolidating the AI Factory
The scaling bottleneck for artificial intelligence has officially left the chip lab and entered the physical world. Vertiv’s rapid string of acquisitions and high-capacity NVIDIA certifications reveal an industry-wide truth: the future of hyperscale compute belongs to those who control the physical mechanics of power and fluid
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Submer and Edgecore Networks accelerate Integrated AI Architecture
he Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) region is emerging as a primary growth hub for next-generation AI infrastructure. To overcome regional grid constraints, extreme ambient temperatures, and severe water scarcity, Edgecore Networks and Submer have partnered to deliver pre-engineered, fluid immersion-cooled AI data center reference designs optimized for high-performance computing in harsh environments.
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Schneider Lets Operators Stop Choosing Between Air and Liquid
Schneider Electric’s new WCDU blends liquid and air cooling in one unit, rounding out a CDU lineup that now spans 105kW to 3.5MW aimed at operators retrofitting mixed-density halls, not just new AI-only builds.
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Blackstone’s Flow Control Buy Is a Bet on the Pipes, Not the Chips
Blackstone’s acquisition of Flow Control Holdings highlights the growing investment in the hardware beneath AI cooling, from valves and manifolds to coolant distribution components powering high-density data centres.
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The hidden cost of cooling AI
AI data centres are cutting water consumption with liquid and low-water cooling, but the savings come with trade-offs. As thermal loads rise, the cost of cooling is shifting into electricity, grid capacity, capital expenditure, resilience and environmental risk.