Cooling and HVAC
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Liquid cooling earns an Nvidia seal
LG’s 600kW coolant distribution unit has passed Nvidia’s AI Factory assessment for cooling performance, reliability, monitoring, failover, and direct-to-chip integration.
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Blackpool moves Silicon Sands into delivery
Blackpool Council intends to appoint HOCHTIEF for the first Silicon Sands data centre, combining a 6MW initial supply with liquid cooling and proposed heat reuse.
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Immersion cooling leaves the data hall
Asperitas has developed an 18.4kW compact immersion system for edge AI installations where dust, vibration, restricted space, and difficult maintenance limit conventional cooling.
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Vera Rubin gets a 2027 UK target
Civo plans to deploy Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform in new UK liquid-cooled data centres from early 2027, although site and power details remain undisclosed.
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The 246kW rack enters the design brief
Schneider Electric and AMD have published a validated infrastructure design for Helios clusters, including racks drawing up to 246kW and greenfield deployments reaching 10.4MW.
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Norway’s Drangedal campus grows by 40MW
Polar Data Centers has announced a second liquid-cooled facility at Drangedal, adding 40MW of planned IT capacity beside its operating DRA01 building.
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A €300m build takes shape at Kouvola
YIT will deliver design, civil works, MEP systems, and commissioning for a new building at atNorth’s planned 430MW FIN04 campus in Finland.
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Britain’s AI buildout meets peak water demand
Water UK has warned that rapid data centre growth could create peak water requirements far above average consumption, particularly in already stressed parts of eastern and south-eastern England.
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Heiligenhaus solar covers a sliver of data demand
Yexio has installed 244kWp of solar generation at its Heiligenhaus data centre, forecasting 220MWh a year against a facility capable of scaling from 2MW to 4MW.
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Liquid cooling orders double before standards settle
Georg Fischer says orders for data centre liquid-cooling systems doubled in the first half of 2026 as prefabricated polymer pipework, valves, controls, and instrumentation move into larger deployment programmes.